Visual Optics: Lectures in Optics, Volume 4

This fourth volume in the series Lectures in Optics provides comprehensive coverage of Visual Optics, which is the field of optics as applied to the function of the eye, a magnificent and highly complicated optical system. The optics part of vision in a ‘well-performing’ eye pertains to the effects responsible for formation and initial detection of the retinal image―the picture of the world as it is projected onto the photosensitive layer of the eye, the retina. The book presents the necessary concepts and definitions that explain ret...