Publications related to Refractive error

Penalized denoising of vehicle trajectories collected by a swarm of drones

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Emmanouil Barmpounakis, Georgios Anagnostopoulos

Vehicle trajectory datasets collected in urban traffic environments with drones pose unique chal- lenges in terms of denoising due to extensive visual restrictions, perspective distortions and human- induced errors. This article taps into the unexplored po ...

2022

ON WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS IN ASYMMETRIC AND MULTIPLE APERTURE OPTICAL SYSTEMS

Alessandro Grosso

The present work deals with monochromatic wavefront aberrations in optical systems without symmetries. The treatment begins with a class of systems characterized by misaligned spherical surfaces whose behavior is analyzed using the wavefront aberration exp ...

EPFL2021

Design of a refractive surface

Mark Pauly, Yuliy Gennadievich Schwartzburg

Method of designing a refractive surface, comprising providing a refractive object having a refractive surface with an initial geometry, determining a refraction of incident illumination through the refractive surface with the initial geometry to create a ...

2017

On the accurate computation of the true contact-area in mechanical contact of random rough surfaces

Jean-François Molinari, Vladislav Yastrebov, Guillaume Anciaux

We introduce a corrective function to compensate errors in contact area computations coming from mesh discretization. The correction is based on geometrical arguments, and apart from the contact area itself requires only one additional quantity to be compu ...

2017

Transition of optical regime in miniaturized optical systems: light interactions beyond the refraction limit

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim

We investigate the transition of optical regimes of miniaturized optical systems using two canonical examples, where the refraction of light limits the system performance. A ball-lens and a solid immersion lens (SIL) are considered, whose refractive respon ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Ophthalmic contact lens with a compressible affinity matrix

Philippe Renaud, Amélie Barbara Hildegarde Béduer, Thomas Michael Braschler

The invention relates to a contact lens for use in the treatment of ocular inflammatory pathologies. The contact lens comprises a soft porous material coupled, in certain embodiments, with detoxifying agents. Said material and/or agents contact and neutral ...

2016

Refraction limit of miniaturized optical systems: a ball-lens example

Hans Peter Herzig, Roland Andreas Bitterli, Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Myun Sik Kim

We study experimentally and theoretically the electromagnetic field in amplitude and phase behind ball-lenses across a wide range of diameters, ranging from a millimeter scale down to a micrometer. Based on the observation, we study the transition between ...

Optical Society of America2016

Short- and long-range polar order contributions to the Ferroelectric phase of Ca2+ doped SrTiO3

Alexander Tagantsev

Short- and long-range impurity-induced polar ordering in Sr1-xCaxTiO3 (x = 0.014) single crystals was investigated and discussed on the basis of light refraction, morphic birefringence and temperature-dependent dielectric hysteresis loop measurements. Anew ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Is there a common cause for perceptual decline in the aging brain?

Michael Herzog, Aaron Michael Clarke, Albulena Jashari-Shaqiri

Even in the absence of neurodegenerative disease, aging strongly affects vision. Whereas optical deficits are well documented, much less is known perceptual deficits. In most perceptual studies, one paradigm is tested and it is usually found that older par ...

Sage Publications Ltd2016

Aberrations of the point spread function of a multimode fiber due to partial mode excitation

Adrien Charles-François Raymond Descloux

We investigate the point spread function of a multimode fiber. The distortion of the focal spot created on the fiber output facet is studied for a variety of the parameters. We develop a theoretical model of wavefront shaping through a multimode fiber and ...

Optical Society of America2016

Identifying mutations in Tunisian families with retinal dystrophy

Imen Habibi

Retinal dystrophies (RD) are a rare genetic disorder with high genetic heterogeneity. This study aimed at identifying disease-causing variants in fifteen consanguineous Tunisian families. Full ophthalmic examination was performed. Index patients were subje ...

Nature Research2016

Extreme Ultraviolet Transient Grating Measurement of Insulator-Metal Transition Dynamics in VO2

Jakob Grilj

We demonstrate spectrally resolved transient grating (TG) spectroscopy in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) near the M-edge of vanadium dioxide. Time-dependent and broadband EUV-TG measurements separate the index of refraction change due to the insulator to me ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2015

Method of producing a reflective or refractive surface

Mark Pauly

A method and apparatus for producing a reflective or refractive surface that reflects or refracts light shined thereon and reproduces on a screen a desired greyscale intensity image on which the reflective or refractive surface is based and a corresponding ...

2014

Derivation of Traceable and Transplantable Photoreceptors from Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells

Freddy Radtke, Ute Koch

Retinal degenerative diseases resulting in the loss of photoreceptors are one of the major causes of blindness. Photoreceptor replacement therapy is a promising treatment because the transplantation of retina-derived photoreceptors can be applied now to di ...

Cell Press2014

Retinal vessel oxygen saturation and its correlation with structural changes in retinitis pigmentosa

Purpose: To study the influence of retinal structural changes on oxygen saturation in retinitis pigmentosa (RP) patients. Methods: Oximetry measurements were performed on 21 eyes of 11 RP patients and compared to 24 eyes of 12 controls. Retinal oxygen satu ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

A New Noninvasively Adjustable Glaucoma Drainage Device

Adan Villamarin

Glaucoma is an irreversible disease affecting the eye, leading to progressive loss of vision and eventually to total blindness. It is often related to high intraocular pressure (IOP), which results from increased outflow resistance to aqueous humor. The fi ...

EPFL2014

A 7 deg(2) survey for galaxy-scale gravitational lenses with the HST imaging archive(star)

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Ravindra Pawase

We present the results of a visual search for galaxy-scale gravitational lenses in similar to 7 deg(2) of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images. The data set comprises the whole imaging data ever taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in the filter ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Microtextured Substrates and Microparticles Used as in Situ Lenses for On-Chip Immunofluorescence Amplification

Martinus Gijs, Hui Yang

We propose a concept for enhancing the fluorescent detection signal of on-chip immunoassays by using three-dimensional 3 and 8 mu m size microtextured structures as substrates for the assay, which allows exploitation of a large number of fluorophores withi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

On Micro Optical Elements for Efficient Light Diffusion

Roland Andreas Bitterli

Efficient light management is one of the key issues in modern energy conversion systems, be it to collect optical power or to redistribute light generated by high power light emitters. This thesis touches mainly on the subject of efficient light redistribu ...

EPFL2013

On the Characteristics of Highly Confined Light Fields : A High-Resolution Interference Microscopy Study

Myun Sik Kim

The Investigation of highly confined light fields created by different mechanisms, such as refraction, diffraction, and scattering, are the main subject of this thesis. We distinguish a specific scattering phenomenon of dielectric microspheres from general ...

EPFL2011