OPTO 223: Clinical Visual Optics

Course Description:
In this course, a review of general and physical optics, optical properties of the eye, image quality, schematic and reduced eyes, optics of the cyclopean eye, measurement of parameters of the eye, accommodation, retinal image size, refractive errors, visual axes, Euclidean and non-Euclidean space, Pulfrich phenomenon, spherical ametropia as related to spectacle and relative spectacle magnification, ocular catoptrics and entopic phenomena will be taught over 12 weeks with two lecture hours per week.