Human Optics as a Function of Eccentricity

Introduction

Anatomically close schematic eye models that can reproduce optical properties are extremely beneficial as these models can simulate the performance of a human eye. These models can be used for research and development purposes such as for ophthalmic lens design, refractive surgery, and studying the features of optical component systems[1]. Optical properties such as spherical and chromatic aberrations along with polychromatic point spread functions (PSF) and modulation transfer function (MTF) have been studied on axis.

While a real eye is not rotationally symmetric, the schematic models are taken to be axially symmetric. Several wide angle models have been designed which provide good predictions for on- and off-axis aberrations but do not fit exactly each aberration at every retinal location due to rotational symmetry. Off-axis performance of the human eye is comparatively less understood. Resultantly, verification of eye models are required. In this project, we quantify the off-axis performance of the Navarro model by calculating optical images of a slanted bar at different angles away from the center of the retina, and quantifying the MTF at each of these locations. We can compare the performance with known values in the literature.

Background

Several schematic eye models have been compared in literature to the data from real eyes to assess their relative utility with metrics such as their wavefront aberrations, image quality metrics and peripheral refraction profiles. The Navarro eye model is of particular interest in this project. The following figures are from the Williams[4] paper, and are the known results for the Navarro eye model from literature which will be compared to our results.

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