Device for mapping corneal topography

Optics: eye examining – vision testing and correcting – Eye examining or testing instrument – Objective type

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ABSTRACT:
A device for mapping the topography of the cornea of an eye has a light source for directing a beam of collimated monochromatic light characterized by a flat wave front onto the cornea. Positioned between the light source and the cornea is an objective lens for focusing this flat wave front toward the cornea as a converging spherical wave front. The light reflected from the cornea passes back through the objective lens to establish a reflected wave front having deviations from the flat wave front caused by aberrations on the cornea that are indicative of corneal topography. This reflected wave front is then segmentally focused by a lens array into a pattern which reveals the deviations for use in mapping the topography of the cornea.

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Klaus R. Freischlad and Chris L. Koliopoulos, Modal Estimation of a Wave Front from Difference Measurements Using the Discrete Fourier Transform, Optical Society of America, vol. 3, No. 11, Nov. 1986, pp. 1852-1861.
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Modal Wave-Front Estimation from Phase Derivative Measurements.

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