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Optics of aberroscopy and super vision
R A Applegate1, L N Thibos, G Hilmantel
1Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78284-06230, USA. applegate@uthscsa.edu
Abstract:
This paper (1) reviews the fundamental limits to visual performance imposed by optical imaging and photoreceptor sampling to determine the limits to the potential gains offered by ideal corrections; (2) examines the predicted losses in vision induced by chromatic aberration, phase shifts, typical ocular aberrations, and the gains possible by correcting the monochromatic aberrations of the eye; (3) discusses the principles of aberration measurement in the eye; and (4) presents methods for measuring and classifying monochromatic aberrations of the eye.