By
Michael Keating, PhD, Professor, Michigan College of Optometry, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI
Description
Completely revised and updated, you will benefit from new and rewritten sections on: axial magnification • Jackson Cross Cylinder tests
• retinoscopy reflex motions • field of view • the optics of indirect ophthalmoscopy • optical aberrations • diffractive lenses • the
Doppler shift • lasers and the similarities and differences of Gaussian laser beams versus the propagation of light from a point source
• plus, a new appendix on angles and basic trigonometry.
Although not a matrix optics text, matrices are used extensively in
the chapters on spherical systems and off-axis aspects of astigmatism. In particular, the matrix treatment of astigmatism serves as
a foundation for the recently developed, much improved statistical techniques that deal with refractive corrections and astigmatism in
all its aspects.
