PURPOSE To estimate changes in surface shape and gradient refractive index (GRIN) profile in primate lenses as a function of accommodation. To quantify the contribution of surface shape and GRIN to spherical aberration changes with accommodation. METHODS Crystalline lenses from 15 cynomolgus monkeys were studied in vitro under different levels of accommodation produced by a stretching system....

PURPOSE The primary objective of the study was to explore the statistics of ocular higher-order aberrations in a population of primary and secondary school children. METHODS A sample of 557 children aged 10-15 years were selected from two primary and two secondary schools in Heraklion, Greece. Children were classified by age in three subgroups: group I (10.7±0.5 years), group II (12.4±0.5 yea...

AIM To study the distribution of ocular higher-order aberrations(HOAs) and mesopic pupil size in individuals screened for refractive surgery. METHODS Ocular HOAs and mesopic pupil size were studied in 2 458 eyes of 1 240 patients with myopia, myopic astigmatism and compound myopic astigmatism and 215 eyes of 110 patients with hyperopia, hyperopic astigmatism and compound hyperopic astigmatism...

Further development of the objective version of the Howland and Howland [(1976) Science, 193, 580-582; (1977) Journal of the Optical Society of America, 67, 1508-1518] aberroscope technique for measuring ocular aberrations is described. Compensation for refractive corrections and calibration is discussed. The technique was used to investigate the effect of accommodation upon the monochromatic a...

RESULTS: Implantation of a toric IOL reduced the refraction astigmatism by 80%. Aberrations increased in all patients, but while astigmatic aberration decreased with toric IOLs, spherical aberration decreased with aspheric IOLs. The UCVA was better with toric and aspheric IOLs (0.1 logMAR), whereas the BCVA was statistically better with aspheric IOLs compared to spherical (p = 0.05). The CSF wa...

We compare the image quality between asymmetric wavefront codings and the simpleto-manufacture spherical aberration over an extended focal range. We verify and explain the superior performance of the spherical aberration via simulation results. c © 2009 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (060.2320) Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators; (060.4510) Optical communications

We have built a 1000mum-diameter silicon nitride deformable mirror for focus-control applications, using micro-optoelectromechanical systems technology. We achieved variable focal lengths from 36 to 360 mm while maintaining zero primary spherical aberration, using a maximum control voltage of 100 V. Active control of spherical aberration of approximately two waves at 660 nm was demonstrated.

As a single aperture, approximately monofocal optical system, the human eye generally creates a single image on the retina. However, the literature contains many reports of perceptual monocular diplopia. While it is easy to understand how distortion may produce monocular diplopia, its reported high incidence in normal eyes is less easily understood. We examine a model which ascribes monocular d...

Corneal and ocular aberrations were measured in a group of eyes before and after cataract surgery with spherical intraocular lens (IOL) implantation by use of well-tested techniques developed in our laboratory. By subtraction of corneal from total aberration maps, we also estimated the optical quality of the intraocular lens in vivo. We found that aberrations in pseudophakic eyes are not signif...

Purpose: To assess the quality of vision in pseudophakic patients with aspheric intraocular lens (IOL) without spherical aberration compared to patients with spherical IOL. Methods: Twenty-four patients (48 eyes) undergoing cataract surgery were randomly divided into two groups: 12 patients received an aspheric IOL in both eyes and 12 received spherical IOLs. The integrity of ocular functions w...