Optics of human eye: 400 years of exploration from Galileo's time.
We present a brief historical background and a description of the main features of the eye's optical properties: the eye is a simple, but rather optimized, optical instrument. It is only since Galileo's time that the importance of the eye as a part of different optical instruments has driven a continuous scientific exploration of ocular optics. In the past decade, the use of wavefront sensing technology allowed us to complete our understating of eye optics as a robust aplanatic system.
Artal
Pablo
P
Laboratorio de Optica, Centro de Investigación en Optica y Nanofísica, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30071 Murcia, Spain. pablo@um.es
Tabernero
Juan
J
D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D009799:Ocular Physiological Phenomena; D055096:Optical Devices / Q000266:history*; D010827:Physiology / Q000266:history*