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A method to design aspheric spectacles for correction of high-order aberrations of human eye

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Aiming at the correction of high-order aberrations of human eye with spectacles, a design method of aspheric spectacles is proposed based on the eye’s wavefront aberrations data. Regarding the eyeball and the spectacles as a whole system-the lens-eye system-the surface profiles of the spectacles are achieved by optimization procedure of lens design. Different from the conventional optometry, in which the refraction prescription is acquired with a visual chart, the design takes into account the two aspects of actual human viewing, eyeball rolling and certain distinct viewing field. The rotation angle of eyeball is set to be ±20° as wearing spectacles, and the field of view is set to be ±7° which is especially important as watching screen display. The individual eye model is constructed as the main part of the lens-eye system. The Liou eye model is modified by sticking a thin meniscus lens to the crystalline lens. Then the defocus of the individual eye is transferred to the front surface of the meniscus lens, and the astigmatism and high-order aberrations are transferred to the front surface of the cornea. 50 eyes are involved in this research, among which 36 eyes have good enough visual performance already after sphero-cylindrical correction. 10 eyes have distinct improvement in vision and 4 eyes have no visual improvement by further aspheric correction. 6 typical subject eyes are selected for the aberrations analysis and the spectacles design in this paper. It is shown that the validity of visual correction of aspheric lens depends on the characteristics of the eye’s wavefront aberrations, and it is effective for the eye with larger astigmatism or spherical aberration. Compared with sphero-cylindrical correction only, the superiority taken by the aspheric correction is mainly on the improvement of MTF at a larger field of view. For the best aspheric correction, the MTF values increase by 18.87%, 38.34%, 44.36%, 51.29% and 57.32% at the spatial frequencies of 40, 80, 100, 125 and 150 cycles/mm, respectively.

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  1. Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China

    Rui Li, ZhaoQi Wang, YongJi Liu & GuoGuang Mu

  2. Key Laboratory of Optical Information Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, 300071, China

    Rui Li, ZhaoQi Wang, YongJi Liu & GuoGuang Mu

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Li, R., Wang, Z., Liu, Y. et al. A method to design aspheric spectacles for correction of high-order aberrations of human eye. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 55, 1391–1401 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-012-4762-4

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