Handbook of Visual Optics, Volume Two Instrumentation and Vision Correction

I. Opthalmic Instrumentation.
1 Light safety.
Ken Barat
2 Wavefront sensors.
Vasyl Molebny
3 Low coherent interferometry.
Christoph K. Hitzenberger
4 Anterior segment OCT.
Ireneusz Grulkowski, Karol Karnowski, and Bernhard Baumann
5 Adaptive optics ophthalmoscopes.
Zoran Popovic
6 Adaptive optics and OCT.
Nathan Doble
7 Adaptive optics for visual testing.
Enrique J Fernández
8 Multiphoton imaging for the cornea.
Moritz Winkler, Donald J. Brown and James V. Jester
9 Multiphoton imaging for the retina.
Robin Sharma and Jennifer J. Hunter
10 Photorefraction.
Shrikant R. 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 A. Sandstedt
16 IOLs for peripheral vision.
Pedro Prieto, Consuelo Robles, Haris Ginis, and Pablo Artal
17 Laser refractive surgery.
Jorge L. Alió 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 and Alex Black 
25 Stereoacuity and optics.
José R. Jiménez
26 Two-photon vision.
Katarzyna Komar, Maciej Wojtkowski, Silvestre Manzanera, and Pablo Artal

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, USA) 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 28000 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.