Handbook of Visual Optics, Volume One Fundamentals and Eye Optics

Handbook of Visual Optics offers an authoritative overview of encyclopedic knowledge in the field of physiological optics. It builds from fundamental concepts to the science and technology of instruments and practical procedures of vision correction, integrating expert knowledge from physics, medicine, biology, psychology, and engineering. The chapters comprehensively cover all aspects of modern study and practice, from optical principles and optics of the eye and retina to novel ophthalmic tools for imaging and visual testing, devices and techniques for visual correction, and the relationship between ocular optics and visual perception.

Preface INTRODUCTION 1 History of Physiological Optics in the 20th Century Gerald Westheimer 2 The Future of Visual Optics David R. Williams FUNDAMENTALS 3 Geometrical Optics Jim Schwiegerling 4 Wave Optics Daniel Malacara 5 Aberrations in Optical Systems José Sasián 6 Photometry Yoshi Ohno 7 Characterization of Visual Stimuli using the Standard Display Model Joyce E. Farrell, Haomiao Jiang, and Brian A. Wandell 8 Basic Ophthalmic Instruments Walter Furlan 9 Instrumentation for Adaptive Optics Chris Dainty 10 Anatomy and Embryology of the Eye: An Overview Vivian Choh and Jacob G. Sivak 11 The Retina Michael A. Freed 12 Visual System Architecture Jonathan Winawer and Hiroshi Horiguchi 13 Visual Psychophysical Methods Denis G. Pelli and Joshua A. Solomon OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE EYE 14 The Cornea Michael Collins, Stephen Vincent, and Scott Read 15 The Lens Fabrice Manns 16 Schematic Eyes David A. Atchinson 17 Axes and Angles of the Eye David A. Atchinson 18 The Retina and the Stiles-Crawford Effects Brian Vohnsen 19 Refractive Errors David A. Wilson 20 Monochromatic Aberrations Susana Marcos, Pablo Pérez-Merino, and Carlos Dorronsoro 21 Peripheral Aberrations Linda Lundström and Robert Rosén 22 Customized Eye Models Juan Tabernero 23 Scattering, Straylight, and Glare Thomas J. T. P. van den Berg 24 Accommodation Mechanisms Shrikant R. Bharadwaj 25 Accommodation Dynamics Barry Winn and Lyle S. Gray 26 Eye Movements Andrew J. Anderson 27 Aging and the Eye’s Optics W. Neil Charman 28 Polarization Properties Juan M. Bueno

Hear from Dr. Artal at this Q&A session: http://ow.ly/wudA30fLW84 Pablo Artal received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University Complutense of Madrid, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institut d'Optique, Orsay, France and a senior researcher at the Instituto de Optica in Madrid. He is since 1994 full Professor of Optics at the University of Murcia, Spain. He spent several periods doing collaborative research in laboratories in Europe, Australia and USA. He is a fellow member of the OSA and ARVO. He received the prestigious 2013 Edwin H Land medal award in recognition of his scientific contributions to the advancement of diagnostic and correction alternatives in visual optics. He is the recipient of the exclusive "ERC advanced grant" in 2013. He has published more than 150 reviewed papers that received 5500 citations (h-index: 41), presented more than 150 invited talks in international meetings and around 120 seminars in different research institutions. He is also a co-inventor of 18 international patents in the field of Optics and Ophthalmology. He has pioneered a number of highly innovative advances in the methods for studying the optics of the eye and has contributed substantially to our understanding of the factors that limit human visual resolution. Dr. Artal is a pioneer in exploring the human eye with new technologies and designed new ophthalmic corrections. Several of his proposed solutions and instrument are currently in use in the clinical practice. For example, he co-invented intraocular lenses correcting for the corneal spherical aberration that provides improved quality of vision to millions of patients over the world. Dr. Artal is the founder of Voptica SL a spin-off company developing the concept he invented of adaptive optics vision analyzers. He has been the mentor of many graduate and post-doctoral students. His personal science blog is followed by readers, mostly graduate students and fellow researchers, from around the world. He has been editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of America A and the Journal of Vision.