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Handbook of optics. Volume III, Vision and vision optics.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: McGraw-Hill Companies, Optical Society of America
Other Authors: Bass, Michael, 1939-, DeCusatis, Casimer, Enoch, Jay M., Lakshminarayanan, Vasudevan, Li, Guifang, 1967-, MacDonald, Carolyn Ann, Mahajan, Virendra N., Van Stryland, Eric W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, [2010]
Edition:3rd ed. /
Series:McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
Subjects:
Optics.
Optical instruments.
Electronic books.
Internet resources.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Optics of the eye
  • Visual performance
  • Psychophysical methods
  • Visual acuity and hyperacuity
  • Optical generation of the visual stimulus
  • The Maxwellian view with an addendum on apodization
  • Ocular radiation hazards
  • Biological waveguides
  • The problem of correction for the Stiles-Crawford effect of the first kind in radiometry and photometry, a solution
  • Colorimetry
  • Color vision mechanisms
  • Assessment of refraction and refractive errors and their influence on optical design
  • Binocular vision factors that influence optical design
  • Optics and vision of the aging eye
  • Adaptive optics in retinal microscopy and vision
  • Refractive surgery, correction of vision, PRK and lasik
  • Three-dimensional confocal microscopy of the living human cornea
  • Diagnostic use of optical coherence tomography in the eye
  • Gradient index optics in the eye
  • Optics of contact lenses
  • Intraocular lenses
  • Displays for vision research
  • Vision problems at computers
  • Human vision and electronic imaging
  • Visual factors associated with head-mounted displays.