Computational aspects of the through-focus characteristics of the human eye

Calculating through-focus characteristics of the human eye from a single objective measurement of wavefront aberration can be accomplished through a range of methods that are inherently computationally cumbersome. A simple yet accurate and computationally effcient method is developed, which combines...

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Main Authors: Ramos López, Darío, Martínez-Finkelshtein, Andrei, Iskander, D. R.
Format: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Language:English
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10835/4917
https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.31.001408
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Summary:Calculating through-focus characteristics of the human eye from a single objective measurement of wavefront aberration can be accomplished through a range of methods that are inherently computationally cumbersome. A simple yet accurate and computationally effcient method is developed, which combines the philosophy of the extended Nijboer-Zernike approach with the radial basis function based approximation of the complex pupil function. The main advantage of the proposed technique is that the increase of the computational cost for a vector valued defocus parameter is practically negligible in comparison to the corresponding scalar valued defocus parameter.