Design and fabrication of a freeform phase plate for high-order ocular aberration correction

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 32, 2005, Pages 6869-6876

  Yi, Allen Y ^a,b   Raasch, Thomas W ^a,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 210 Baker Systems Building ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Basic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ERROR COMPENSATION; MACHINING; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHASE MEASUREMENT; WAVEFRONTS;

ABERRATION CORRECTION; FREEFORM PHASE PLATE; VISUAL ACUITY TESTING; WAVEFRONT ERRORS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; REFRACTION ERROR; SPECTACLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL DISORDER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EYEGLASSES; HUMANS; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 27944476923     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.006869     Document Type: Article

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