眼球系统中关键屈光元件的光学模型研究

角膜和晶状体是人眼光学系统中两个关键的屈光元件,为了理解眼内各介质和整个眼球的屈光状态以及视网膜上的成像,有利于眼科临床方面的应用,需要分别对二者进行光学特性模型的分析与研究。根据角膜和晶状体的光学特性,应用光学设计软件Zemax和有关的数学工具,从光学成像角度,分别对角膜和晶状体模型进行研究:基于结合人眼光学模型的角膜双二次曲面模型的建立方法,统计分析了我国人眼实测角膜参数的数据;通过对晶状体折射率分布特点的分析,分别在轴向和径向上进行了综合分析。最后给出了符合我国人眼特点的角膜面型的统计数值,完善了我国人眼角膜光学模型的建立;获得了形式简单且能够表示晶状体折射率分布一般特征的梯度渐变模型表达式。基于收集的我国人眼实测数据的角膜面型模型和晶状体梯度渐变形式的折射率模型,为解决人眼光学系统研究中的关键问题提供了新的方案和思路。     

Modeling soft contact lenses in raytrace code

The surface interferogram feature of raytrace codes is used to model the optical performance of soft contact lenses, especially in situations where the lens is decentered. The contact lens is totally defined by a thickness data file, which can easily be shifted relative to the corneal vertex of a schematic eye model.     

Non-rotational aspherical models of the human optical system

The aim of this work was to define three-dimensional (3D) non-rotational aspherical parametric models for the human cornea and lens using computational geometry and CAD representations. The hyperbolic cosine based function is used for the cornea and a parametric model is used for lens modeling. Data analysis and visualization of 3D non-rotational models were made using the Rhinoceros CAD software and MATLAB software was used for numeric computation. We combined, implemented, and evaluated these models with a 3D ray-tracing in order to fully analyze the human eye model. It was found that 3D non-rotational aspherical models for the human eye could be more accurately modeled and rendered for analysis with finite element method. The objective of this study is to present and analyze mathematical models of the cornea and lens and to highlight the potential of optical applications of the eye models containing astigmatic surfaces, which are more close to the real eye than spherosymmetric eye models.     

Birefringent properties of diametrically loaded gradient-index lenses

Gradient-index (GRIN) lenses have been widely used as collimators in various fiber-optic sensors and as optical coupling devices in components designed for optical communication systems. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the birefringent properties of GRIN lenses and the potential for using them as photoelastic sensing elements in optical transducers. Analytical and experimental results are described that were obtained for the intensity distribution produced by studying a GRIN lens by using a polariscope. The residual birefringence inherent in an unloaded lens is initially studied. The lens is then assumed to be diametrically loaded and the superposition is studied by the method of ray tracing. When the results obtained from the simulation for a Selfoc, 0.25-pitch lens are compared with experimental data, an excellent agreement is obtained. Intensity increases monotonically with load, confirming that the lens would be a good choice for the sensing element of an optical transducer designed as part of a strain or acceleration measurement system. The numerical simulation is then used to study the influence of residual stress on sensitivity.     

Fabrication method of ultra-small gradient-index fiber probe

Fabrication method and device of ultra-small gradient-index(GRIN) fiber probe were investigated in order to explore the development of ultra-small probes for optical coherence tomography(OCT) imaging.The beamexpanding effect of no-core fiber(NCF) and the focusing properties of the GRIN fiber lens were analyzed based on the model of GRIN fiber probe consisting of single-mode fiber(SMF),NCF and GRIN fiber lens.A stereo microscope based system was developed to fabricate the GRIN fiber probe.A fiber fusion splicer and an ultrasonic cleaver were used to weld and cut the fiber respectively.A confocal microscopy was used to measure the dimensions of probe components.The results show that the sizes of probe components developed are at the level of millimeter.Therefore,the proposed experimental system meets the fabrication requirements of an ultra-small self-focusing GRIN fiber probe.This shows that this fabrication device and method can be employed in the fabrication of ultrasmall self-focusing GRIN fiber probe and applied in the study of miniaturized optical probes and OCT systems.     

Single dispersive gradient-index profile for the aging human lens

We provide a single gradient-index (GRIN) profile for the crystalline lens in an updated age-dependent emmetropic-eye model. The parameters defining the GRIN profile include their variation with age and the dispersion of the refractive index in order to account for the increase in the positive-wave spherical aberration, for the constant chromatic difference in the refraction of the human eye, as well as for the decrease in the retinal-image quality with aging. In accounting for these ocular properties, the results show that first, the value of the dispersion parameters are invariant with age. Second, those parameters defining the distribution of the lens index cause the lens-center-index value to decrease slightly, and its position along the lens axis changes with age. Furthermore, these findings are in agreement with the lens paradox.     

Adaptive model of the gradient index of the human lens. II. Optics of the accommodating aging lens

A simple, parametric model of the gradient refractive index distribution (GRIN) of the human lens with conicoid surfaces able to adapt to individual distributions as well as to the changes of the lens shape and structure with age and accommodation is presented. The first part of this work was published in a companion paper [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A24, 2175 (2007)]. It included the development of the mathematical formulation of the adaptive model; the validation of its customization capability by fitting, sample by sample, a set of in vitro refractive index distributions of lenses of different ages, ranging from 7 to 82 years, from the recent literature; and an average model of the (in vitro) aging crystalline lens. Here we extrapolate that in vitro GRIN model by assuming that the same structural parameters are valid for the living lens. Then, recent data of the changes of the shape of the aging lens with accommodation from the literature are used to build an aging and accommodating lens model. This is straightforward since the GRIN model adapts automatically to the chosen external lens geometry. A strong coupling was found between the adaptive GRIN distributions and the conic constants affecting the refractive power. To account for the lens paradox and the reported changes in lens spherical aberration with age and accommodation, age- and accommodation-dependent functions for the anterior and posterior internal conic constants were derived through optimization.     

System design considerations to improve isoplanatism for adaptive optics retinal imaging

Adaptive optics (AO) retinal images are limited by anisoplanatism; wavefront shape varies across the field of view such that only a limited area can achieve diffraction-limited image quality at one time. We explored three alternative AO modalities designed to reduce this effect, drawn from work in astronomy. Optical design analysis and computer modeling was undertaken to predict the benefit of each modality for various schematic eyes and various complexities of the imaging system. Off-axis performance was found to be limited by system parameters and not by the eye itself, due to the inherent off-axis characteristics of the eye's gradient index lens. This rendered the alternative AO modalities ineffectual compared with conventional AO but did suggest several methods by which anisoplanatism may be reduced by altering the design of conventional AO systems. Several of these design possibilities were explored with further modeling. The best-performing method involved the replacement of system lenses with gradient index versions inspired by the human eye lens. Mirror-based relay optics also demonstrated good off-axis performance, but their advantage was lost in regions of the system suffering from uncorrected higher-order aberration. Incorporating "off-the-plane" beam deviations ameliorated this loss substantially. In this work we also show, to our knowledge for the first time, that the ideal location of a single AO corrector need not lie in the pupil plane.     

激光起爆器光学窗口的研究

文章设计了平面透镜、单凸透镜、双凸透镜组及格林透镜等几种光学窗口,并通过发火试验详细讨论了几种窗口的优劣。研究结果表明,自聚焦透镜发火阈值要远低于其它光学透镜结构发火能量,是目前最为理想的窗口透镜。     

Birefringence in gradient-index rod lenses: a direct measurement method and interferometric polarization effects

Gradient-index (GRIN) media can contain stress birefringence resulting from the variation in material composition. Anisotropy in a GRIN rod lens affects ray propagation and can degrade image quality. A technique, believed to be new, for measuring birefringence in GRIN rod lenses has been developed. The change in optical path difference (OPD) for orthogonal polarizations is measured directly. With this method, effects on OPD from standard imaging aberrations are excluded. Birefringence measurements for various GRIN rod samples are presented. The data are compared with results obtained previously by use of a Twyman-Green measurement method. Also, the polarization effects on tilt fringes observed with the direct measurement method and the Twyman-Green method are presented and modeled theoretically. Tilt fringes for large birefringence test cases are also modeled.     

Low-power gradient-index microscope objective: design

We demonstrate use of the gradient-index (GRIN) spectral model to design an achromatic low-power GRIN microscope objective. This new GRIN microscope objective, using simpler lens configurations, exhibits a performance that is superior to the commercially available conventional objectives. We provide various design considerations and useful guidelines to suggest how the GRIN spectral model is useful in arriving at improved designs in performance and configurations for modern optical systems.     

无源对称光学结构双通道光纤旋转连接器

提出一种实现双通道旋转互连的新型对称光学耦合结构,并应用光学结构设计出无源双通道光纤旋转连接器。利用自聚焦透镜发射光信号,使其通过自由空间传输,被另一个自聚焦透镜接收。在自由空间可以实现旋转连接并实现光信号的双向传输,通过分析该光学结构设计原理和光路计算,发现每组透镜中两个透镜焦距之比为 20?50,离轴距离为 4?10mm 范围时,才能保证光信道之间不发生干扰且信号持续传输。     

Graded-index fiber lens proposed for ultrasmall probes used in biomedical imaging

The quality and parameters of probing optical beams are extremely important in biomedical imaging systems both for image quality and light coupling efficiency considerations. For example, the shape, size, focal position, and focal range of such beams could have a great impact on the lateral resolution, penetration depth, and signal-to-noise ratio of the image in optical coherence tomography. We present a beam profile characterization of different variations of graded-index (GRIN) fiber lenses, which were recently proposed for biomedical imaging probes. Those GRIN lens modules are made of a single mode fiber and a GRIN fiber lens with or without a fiber spacer between them. We discuss theoretical analysis methods, fabrication techniques, and measured performance compared with theory.     

Gradient-index human lens as a quadratic phase transformer

The correspondence between the linear integral transform and the ray-transfer matrix of a first-order optical system is used to evaluate the transmittance function of gradient-index (GRIN) human lens regarded as a quadratic phase transformer. The size of the GRIN crystalline lens has been considered for redefining the effective transmittance function by the pupil function. The role that the GRIN nature of the human lens plays in the retinal image quality using the point spread function (PSF) is commented on. The simulation results show that the effective radius of the output face of the lens decreases with increasing thickness and that it is higher for flat end surfaces than for curved end faces. On the other hand, the simulation results also show, for small pupil sizes, that the GRIN nature of the human lens is a retinal image degradation source producing the spread of the PSF and that the curved end surfaces of the lens constitute a retinal image quality improve factor contributing to the narrowing of the PSF.     

Foundations for low-loss fiber gradient-index lens pair coupling with the self-imaging mechanism

A fiber-optic collimator that emits a Gaussian beam with its beam waist at a certain distance after the exit face of the lens is labeled a self-imaging collimator. For such a collimator, the waist of the emitted Gaussian beam and its location are partly dependent on the properties of the gradient-index (GRIN) lens. Parameters for the self-imaging collimator are formulated in terms of the parameters of a GRIN lens (e.g., pitch, core refractive index, gradient index, length) and the optical wavelength. Next, by use of the Gaussian beam approximation, a general expression for the coupling power loss between two self-imaging-type single-mode fiber (SMF) collimators is, for the first time to our knowledge, derived as a function of three types of misalignment, namely, separation, lateral offset, and angular tilt misalignment. A coupling experiment between two self-imaging collimators with changing separation distance is successfully performed and matches the proposed self-imaging mechanism coupling loss theory. In addition, using a prism, lateral offset, as well as angular tilt, misalignments are experimentally simulated for a two self-imaging collimator coupling condition by a single collimator reflective test geometry. Experimental results agree well with the proposed loss formulas for self-imaging GRIN lenses. Hence, for the first time to our knowledge, the mathematical foundations are laid for employing self-imaging-type fiber collimators in SMF-based free-space systems allowing optimal design for ultra-low-loss coupling.     

Light scattering with single-mode fiber collimators

The recent development and availability of fiber-optic components including graded-index (GRIN) microlenses and the unique optical properties of single-mode optical fibers make it possible to build ideal detector systems for light-scattering measurements. We show that the simple coupling of a 0.25-pitch GRIN lens and a single-mode optical fiber to form a collimator makes a nonimaging detector system with properties that are superior to conventional setups based on pinholes and that approaches the theoretical limit of a perfectly coherent detector.     

Age-dependent variation of the Gradient Index profile in human crystalline lenses

PURPOSE: To reconstruct the gradient index (GRIN) profile of human crystalline lenses ex-vivo using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging with an optimization technique and to study the dependence of the GRIN profile with age. METHODS: Cross-sectional images of nine isolated human crystalline lenses with ages ranging from 6 to 72 (post mortem time 1 to 4 days) were obtained using a custom-made OCT system. Lenses were extracted from whole cadaver globes and placed in a measurement chamber filled with preservation medium (DMEM). Lenses were imaged with the anterior surface up and then flipped over and imaged again, to obtain posterior lens surface profiles both undistorted and distorted by the refraction through the anterior crystalline lens and GRIN. The GRIN distribution of the lens was described with three variables by means of power function, with variables being the nucleus and surface index, and a power coefficient that describes the decay of the refractive index from the nucleus to the surface. An optimization method was used to search for the parameters that produced the best match of the distorted posterior surface. RESULTS: The distorted surface was simulated with accuracy around the resolution of the OCT system (under 15 μm). The reconstructed refractive index values ranged from 1.356 to 1.388 for the surface, and from 1.396 to 1.434 for the nucleus. The power coefficient ranged between 3 and 18. The power coefficient increased significantly with age, at a rate of 0.24 per year. CONCLUSION: Optical Coherence Tomography allowed optical, non-invasive measurement of the 2-D gradient index profile of the isolated human crystalline lens ex vivo. The age-dependent variation of the changes is consistent with previous data using magnetic resonance imaging, and the progressive formation of a refractive index plateau.     

Optimization method for ultra-wide-angle and panoramic optical systems

To an ultra-wide-angle and panoramic optical system, the aberrations of point object at any field angle are separated into two types: the aperture-ray aberrations of off-axis point object and the chief-ray aberrations. A simple form of the triangular formulae of tracing an oblique-incidence ray is derived to calculate the chief-ray parameters and their aberrations; moreover, the aperture-ray aberrations of an off-axis point object are analyzed with the plane-symmetric aberration theory. Based on the two types of aberrations, we present a merit function for ultra-wide-angle and panoramic optical systems; the optimization program with the differential-evolution algorithm is then developed. To validate the optimization method we finally optimize a fish-eye lens and a catadioptric omnidirectional imaging system.     

Effects of disoriented grains on the elastic constants of directionally solidified superalloys

Two models, namely, coaxial and non-coaxial, are proposed to estimate the elastic constants of directionally solidified superalloys, which behave like transversely isotropic materials and require five independent elastic constants. Coaxial model considers each grain as an individual and obtains the averaged values. Because of the longitudinal grain structure, three independent constants are carried over from original cubic single crystal and the other two are obtainable through the averaging process. For each disoriented direction in the non-coaxial model, a lumped grain, which behaves like a transverse isotropy is proposed. By assuming the disoriented angle follows Weibull distribution, non-coaxial model obtains the expectations of compliances from probability consideration. Disoriented effect could be simulated through the parameters of Weibull distribution. Experimental off-axis Young's modulus data are compared with numerical predictions by both models. Excellent agreement is observed between coaxial model and 90° off-axis experimental data. However, the coaxial model over predicts the 45° off-axis Young's modulus, because anisotropic coupling effect is very strong in the real off-axis specimens. As non-coaxial model considers the disoriented effect, excellent agreement is observed between non-coaxial model and 45° off-axis experiment data. Disoriented grain consideration reduces the anisotropic coupling effect and predicts better to the real off-axis specimens.     

轴位移法测定GRIN透镜的折射率分布系数

本文对GRIN透镜的精确光线追迹公式作了推导,介绍了轴位移法对透镜折射率分布的测量方法及相应的数据处理,并对测量误差进行了分析和计算,从而对测定GRIN透镜折射率分布提供了一种精确而且实用的方法。