OPT-7507 Optics 4: Physiological Optics with Laboratory
This course, which is the fourth part of a four-term sequence, presents the eye as an optical instrument and the reviews the optical characteristics of vision. Students will learn to apply optical principles to the ocular structures and to visual function. Within a study of the pupil, students will examine range of clarity and stimulus to accommodation. Students will learn about retinal image size, spectacle magnification and relative spectacle magnification within the context of axial and refractive ametropias, culminating in a discussion of aniseikonia. Students will explore the optics of commonly prescribed low vision devices. Ocular biometry is discussed in reference to intra-ocular lens (IOL) calculations and refractive surgery as well as the science of emmetropization.al principles as they relate to visual function and optical devices.