title: The effect of longitudinal chromatic aberration on the lag of accommodation and depth of field.
abstract: Longitudinal chromatic aberration is present in all states of accommodation and may play a role in the accommodation response and the emmetropisation process. We study the change of the depth of field (DOFi) with the state of accommodation, taking into account the longitudinal chromatic aberration.
  
  
  
  Subjective DOFi was defined as the range of defocus beyond which the blur of the target (one line of optotypes of 0.1 logMAR shown on a black-and-white microdisplay, seen through different colour filters) was perceived as objectionable. The subject's eye was paralysed and different, previously-measured accommodative states (corresponding to the accommodative demands of 0D, 2D and 4D) were simulated with a deformable mirror. Different colour conditions (monochromatic red, green and blue and polychromatic (white) were tested. The DOFi was measured subjectively, using a motorised Badal system.
  
  
  
  Taking as reference the average accommodative response for the white stimulus, the blue response exhibits on average a lead of 0.45 ± 0.09D, the green a negligible lead of 0.07 ± 0.02D and red a lag of 0.49 ± 0.10D. The monochromatic DOFi, calculated by averaging DOFi over the red, green and blue colour conditions for each accommodative demand was 1.10 ± 0.10D for 0D, 1.20 ± 0.08D for 2D, and 1.26 ± 0.40D for 4D. The polychromatic white DOFi were greater than the average monochromatic DOFi by 19%, 9% and 14% for 0D, 2D, and 4D of accommodative demand, respectively.
  
  
  
  The longitudinal chromatic aberration causes a dioptric shift of the monochromatic accommodation response. The study did not reveal this shift to depend on the accommodative demand or to have an effect on the DOFi.
authors: CiViUM Research Group, University of Murcia, Spain, Spain. mateusz.jaskulski@gmail.com.
authors: Mateusz
authors: M
authors: Jaskulski
authors: CiViUM Research Group, University of Murcia, Spain, Spain.|Grupo de Investigación en Optometría, University of Valencia, Spain.
authors: Iván
authors: I
authors: Marín-Franch
authors: CiViUM Research Group, University of Murcia, Spain, Spain.|Grupo de Investigación en Optometría, University of Valencia, Spain.
authors: Paula
authors: 0000-0003-0310-035X
authors: P
authors: Bernal-Molina
authors: CiViUM Research Group, University of Murcia, Spain, Spain.
authors: Norberto
authors: N
authors: López-Gil
mesh_terms: D000065:Accommodation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D000328:Adult; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D003867:Depth Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D058453:Emmetropia / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: accommodation; depth of field; ocular aberrations; physiological optics