Volume 1
I. Introduction.
1 History of Physiological Optics.
Gerald Westheimer
2 Possibilities in Physiological Optics.
David R. Williams and Sarah Walters
3 Some advances in the last decade.
Pablo Artal
II. Fundamentals.
4 Geometrical Optics.
Jim Schwiegerling
5 Wave Optics.
Daniel Malacara
6 Optical aberrations.
José Sasián
7 Photometry and colorimetry.
Joshi Ohno
8 Characterization of visual stimuli using standard display model.
Joyce E. Farrell, Haomiao Jiang and Brian A. Wandell
9 Basic ophthalmic instruments.
Walter Furlan
10 Instrumentation for adaptive optics.
Walter Furlan
11 Anatomy and embryology of the eye.
Vivian Choh and Jacob G. Sivak
12 The retina.
Michael A Freed
13 Visual system architecture.
Jonathan Winawer
14 Visual psychophysics methods.
Denis G. Pelli and Joshua A. Solomon
III. Optical Properties of the Eye.
15 The cornea.
Michael Collins, Stephen Vincent and Scott Read
16 The lens.
Fabrice Manns
17 Schematic Eyes.
David Atchison
18 Axes and angles of the eye.
David Atchison
19 The retina and Stiles-Crawford effect.
Brian Vohnsen
20 Refractive errors.
David Wilson
21 Monochromatic aberrations.
Susana Marcos, Pablo Pérez-Merino and Carlos Dorronsoro
22 Chromatic aberration in the human eye.
Alberto de Castro, María Vinas-Peña and Enrique J. Fernandez
23 Peripheral aberrations.
Linda Lundstrom
24 Customized eye models.
Juan Tabernero
25 Scattering, straylight and glare.
Thomas J. T. P. van den Berg
26 Accommodation mechanisms.
Shrikant R. Bharadwaj
27 Accommodation dynamics.
Barry Winn and Lyle S Gray
28 Eye movements.
Andrew Anderson
29 Aging and eye optics.
W. Neil Charman
30 Polarization properties.
Juan Bueno
Volume Two
I. Opthalmic Instrumentation.
1 Light safety.
Ken Barat
2 Wavefront sensors.
Vasyl Molebny
3 Low coherent interferometry.
Christoph Hitzenberger
4 Anterior segment OCT.
Irek Grulkowski
5 Adaptive optics ophthalmoscopes.
Zoran Popovic
6 Adaptive optics and OCT.
Nathan Doble
7 Adaptive optics for visual testing.
Enrique J Fernandez
8 Multiphoton imaging for the cornea.
Moritz Winkler, Donald J. Brown and James V. Jester
9 Multiphoton imaging for the retina.
Jennifer J Hunter and Robin Sharma
10 Photorefraction.
Shrikant Bharadwaj, Silvestre Manzanera and Pablo Artal
II. Vision Correction.
11 Ophthalmic lenses.
Daniel Malacara
12 Contact lenses.
Ian Cox
13 Corrections in highly aberrated eye.
Jason D. Marsack and Raymond A. Applegate
14 Accommodating intraocular lenses.
Oliver Findl and Nino Hirnschall
15 Adjustable IOLs.
Chris Sandstedt
16 IOLs for peripheral vision.
Pedro Prieto, Consuelo Robles, Haris Ginis et al
17 Laser refractive surgery.
Jorge L. Alio and Mohamed El Bahrawy
18 Non-linear tissue processing in ophthalmic surgery.
Holger Lubatschowski
19 Corneal on-lays and inlays.
Corina van del Pol
III. Impact of Eyes Optics on Vision.
20 Optical and visual metrics.
Antonio Guirao
21 Predicting visual acuity.
Rafael Navarro
22 Neural adaptation to blur.
Michael A. Webster and Susana Marcos
23 Contrast adaptation.
Frank Shaeffell
24 Visual changes with aging.
Joanne Wood
25 Stereoacuity and optics.
José R Jimenez
26 Two-photon vision.
Katarzyna Komar, Maciej Wojtkowski, Silvestre Manzanera et al
Biography
Pablo Artal is Full Professor of Optics at the University of Murcia (Spain), where he founded and directs the Laboratorio de Óptica. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University Complutense of Madrid and carried out postdoctoral research at the Institut d’Optique, Université de Paris-Sud (France) and Cambridge University. Before joining the University of Murcia in 1994, he was Senior Research Scientist at the Instituto de Óptica, CSIC (Madrid). He has also been a visiting professor at the Universities of Rochester, and New South Wales, and is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at Central South University (China).
Professor Artal’s research focuses on the optics of the eye and retina, visual performance, and the development of advanced optical and electronic imaging technologies for vision science, ophthalmology, and biomedicine. He has pioneered highly innovative methods for studying the eye’s optics and has contributed fundamentally to understanding the optical and neural factors limiting human vision. Several of his inventions have been translated into clinical ophthalmic instruments now in widespread use. He has authored over 450 peer-reviewed papers, which have received more than 27,500 citations (h-index = 89, Google Scholar), delivered over 200 invited lectures and 150 institutional seminars, and supervised more than 45 Ph.D. theses and 25 postdoctoral fellows.
He is co-inventor on 30 international patents and co-founder of four technology companies, including Visiometrics SL and Voptica SL, which have commercialized innovative diagnostic and visual-simulation devices. Professor Artal is a Fellow of OPTICA (OSA), ARVO, SPIE, and the European Optical Society. His contributions have been recognized with numerous national and international awards, including the Edwin H. Land Medal (OSA/IS&T, 2013), the King Jaime I Award in New Technologies (2015), the National Spanish Research Award “Juan de la Cierva” (2018), the Edgar D. Tillyer Award (OSA, 2019), and the Medal of the Spanish Royal Physics Society (2021). He has also received two European Research Council (ERC) grants: an Advanced Grant in 2014 and a Proof-of-Concept Grant in 2020.
