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Lectures in optics vol. 4: visual optics

This fourth volume of the series Lectures in Optics provides a comprehensive coverage of the field of Visual Optics, which is the field of optics as it applies to the function of the eye. Itself, the eye is a magnificent yet very complicated optical system. The optics part of vision in a 'well-performing' eye, called an emmetropic eye, pertains to the effects responsible for the formation and initial detection of the retinal image, the picture of the world as it is projected on the photosensitive layer of the eye, the retina. The book thoroughly presents the necessary concepts and definitions that explain the retinal image properties, identifying the eye as an optical system that forms and detects this minified, inverted, and real image.