Handbook of Visual Optics, Volume One Fundamentals and Eye Optics

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.
Yoshi 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 and Hiroshi Horiguchi
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, Arthur Ho, and Scorr Read
17 Schematic Eyes.
David A. Atchison
18 Axes and angles of the eye.
David A. Atchison
19 The retina and Stiles-Crawford effect.
Brian Vohnsen
20 Refractive errors.
David A. Wilson
21 Monochromatic aberrations.
Susana Marcos, Pablo Pérez-Merino and Carlos Dorronsoro
22 Chromatic aberration in the human eye.
Alberto de Castro, María Viñas-Peña and Enrique J. Fernandez
23 Peripheral aberrations.
Linda Lundström and Robert Rosén
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.
Lyle S. Gray and Barry Winn
28 Eye movements.
Andrew J. Anderson
29 Aging and eye optics.
W. Neil Charman
30 Polarization properties.
Juan M. Bueno

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 PhD in Physics from the University Complutense of Madrid and carried out postdoctoral research at the Institut d’Optique, Université de Paris-Sud (Orsay, France) and Cambridge University. Before joining the University of Murcia in 1994, he was Senior Research Scientist at the Instituto de Óptica, CSIC (Madrid, Spain). He has also been Visiting Professor at the University of Rochester, Rochester NY, and the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at Central South University, Changsha, 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 28,000 citations (h-index = 90, Google Scholar), delivered over 200 invited lectures and 150 institutional seminars, and supervised more than 45 PhD theses and 25 postdoctoral fellows.

He is co-inventor on 30 international patents and cofounder 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.