PURPOSE To evaluate the optical aberrations induced by LASIK refractive surgery for myopia on the anterior surface of the cornea and the entire optical system of the eye. METHODS Total and corneal aberrations were measured in a group of 14 eyes (preoperative myopia ranging from -2.5 to -13 D) before and after LASIK surgery. Total aberrations were measured using a laser ray-tracing technique. ...

PURPOSE To determine the feasibility of creating customized multifocal and aspheric patterns onto a light-adjustable lens (LAL) using a digital light delivery (DLD) system. METHODS Silicone LALs were placed in a wet cell and irradiated in vitro using the DLD. Spatial intensity patterns were designed and generated to (1) create a multifocal optic with customized power and diameter and (2) simu...

A systematic and quantitative analysis is given of the impact pupil aberrations on imaging performance in wavefront manipulation applications using adaptive optical elements. For practical case rotationally-symmetric types corrections, such as defocus or spherical aberration, analytical expressions induced are derived including their field dependence. Each aberration thereby related to specific...

In the past 15 years, the advent of aberration correction technology in electron microscopy has enabled materials analysis on the atomic scale. This is made possible by precise arrangements of multipole electrodes and magnetic solenoids to compensate the aberrations inherent to any focusing element of an electron microscope. Here, we describe an alternative method to correct for the spherical a...

Purpose: To assess the quality of vision in pseudophakic patients with a prolate aspherical intraocular lens (IOL) compared to patients with a spherical IOL. Patients and methods: Twenty patients undergoing cataract surgery were divided into two groups according to the type of IOL: ten prolate aspherical IOLs (TECNIS Z9000, AMO, USA) and ten spherical IOLs (911 CeeOn Edge, AMO, USA). The integr...

When beam quality is a concern in an optical setup, lens aberrations are an undesired side-effect. Which aberration affects a particular experiment is not always as obvious as one would like. Take for example, the simple goal to concentrate the maximum amount of optical power at a certain point using a lens. The first “obvious” requirement is that the initial beam should be well collimated, sen...

A method for obtaining the best image plane for holographic optical elements by the use of the concept of entropy is described. This method is applied to in-line holographic lenses with different values of spherical aberration. Numerical results show that for holograms with large aberrations the best image plane (obtained by the use of the concept of entropy) is different from the minimum-aberr...