Positioning tolerances for phase plates compensating aberrations of the human eye
- 1 July 2000
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 39 (19), 3413-3420
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.39.003413
Abstract
The positioning tolerances for phase plates used to compensate human eye aberrations are analyzed. Lateral displacements, in-plane rotations, and axial translations are considered, describing analytic and numerical procedures to compute the maximum degree of compensation achievable in each case. The compensation loss is found to be dependent both on the kind and the amount of misalignment and on the particular composition of the aberration pattern of each subject in terms of Zernike polynomials. We applied these procedures to a set of human eye aberrations measured with the laser ray-tracing method. The general trend of results suggests that lateral positioning, followed by angular positioning, are the key factors affecting compensation performance in practical setups, whereas axial positioning has far less stringent requirements.Keywords
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