Handbook of Visual Optics, Two-Volume Set by Artal, Pablo;

Short description:

The Handbook of Visual Optics, Volume One, provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of physiological optics. The Handbook of Visual Optics, Volume Two, presents an authoritative survey of modern ophthalmic instrumentation, vision-correction technologies, and the optical foundations of visual performance.

Long description:

Volume One

This new edition of the Handbook of Visual Optics, Volume One, provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of physiological optics. It spans the field from the physical foundations of light propagation in the eye to the biological and perceptual mechanisms underlying human vision. Building on the success of the first edition, this volume has been updated and expanded to reflect major advances in understanding the optical properties of the eye, visual performance, and fundamental measurement methods. Integrating perspectives from physics, biology, medicine, psychology, and engineering, the chapters cover the geometry and wave optics of the eye, its anatomy and function, the behavior of optical aberrations and scattering, and the neural processes that shape perception. This first volume establishes the essential basis for the companion Volume Two, which addresses ophthalmic instrumentation and applications.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of visual optics, from geometrical and wave optics to the anatomy, physiology, and visual psychophysics of the human eye.


• Extensive updates reflecting the past decade of progress, including new chapters on chromatic aberration, peripheral optics and recent advances in adaptive optics and visual modeling


•  Authored by leading international experts, offering an integrated multidisciplinary perspective that connects optical theory, biological structure, and visual perception.

Volume Two

This new edition of the Handbook of Visual Optics, Volume Two, presents an authoritative survey of modern ophthalmic instrumentation, vision-correction technologies, and the optical foundations of visual performance. Building upon the theoretical framework established in Volume One, it explores the science and technology of advanced imaging systems, laser-based diagnostics, adaptive-optics platforms, and surgical and corrective devices that have transformed clinical practice over the past decade. This revised edition incorporates new developments in optical coherence tomography, multiphoton imaging, and adaptive optics, as well as innovative approaches to intraocular lenses and refractive correction. It integrates contributions from leading experts across optics, engineering, and vision science to provide both depth of understanding and practical relevance for researchers, clinicians, and students.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive coverage of modern ophthalmic instrumentation, including OCT, adaptive optics, multiphoton imaging, and photorefraction techniques.


• Expanded sections on vision correction, featuring new chapters on peripheral optics intraocular lenses, nonlinear surgical optics, and emerging refractive technologies.


• Bridges research and clinical application, combining rigorous optical principles with state-of-the-art tools for imaging, diagnosis, and correction of visual defects.

Table of Contents:

Volume One
I. Introduction.  1 History of Physiological Optics.  2 Possibilities in Physiological Optics.  3 Some advances in the last decade.  II. Fundamentals.  4 Geometrical Optics.  5 Wave Optics.  6 Optical aberrations.  7 Photometry and colorimetry.  8 Characterization of visual stimuli using standard display model.  9 Basic ophthalmic instruments.  10 Instrumentation for adaptive optics.  11 Anatomy and embryology of the eye.  12 The retina.  13 Visual system architecture.  14 Visual psychophysics methods. III. Optical Properties of the Eye.  15 The cornea.  16 The lens.  17 Schematic Eyes.  18 Axes and angles of the eye.  19 The retina  and Stiles-Crawford effect.  20 Refractive errors.  21 Monochromatic aberrations.  22 Chromatic aberration in the human eye.  23 Peripheral aberrations.  24 Customized eye models.  25 Scattering, straylight and glare.  26 Accommodation mechanisms.  27 Accommodation dynamics.  28 Eye movements.  29 Aging and eye optics.  30 Polarization properties.

Volume Two
 I. Opthalmic Instrumentation.  1 Light safety.  2 Wavefront sensors.  3 Low coherent interferometry.  4 Anterior segment OCT.  5 Adaptive optics ophthalmoscopes.   6  Adaptive optics and OCT.  7 Adaptive optics for visual testing.  8 Multiphoton imaging for the cornea.  9 Multiphoton imaging for the retina.  10 Photorefraction.       II. Vision Correction.  11 Ophthalmic lenses.  12 Contact lenses.  13 Corrections in highly aberrated eye.  14 Accommodating intraocular lenses.  15 Adjustable IOLs.  16 IOLs for  peripheral vision.  17 Laser refractive surgery.  18 Non-linear tissue processing in ophthalmic surgery.  19 Corneal on-lays and inlays.  III. Impact of Eyes Optics on Vision.  20 Optical and visual metrics.  21 Predicting visual acuity.  22 Neural adaptation to blur.  23 Contrast adaptation.  24 Visual changes with aging.  25 Stereoacuity and optics.  26 Two-photon vision.