Abstract

Many of the all-time greats of optics—Newton, Thomas Young, Brewster, Wheatstone, Helmholtz, Maxwell, Rayleigh—have also made important breakthroughs in our understanding of human vision. Vision has, therefore, been an integral part of the portfolio of the Optical Society of America since its inception. Advances in vision science, particularly the psychophysics of spatial, color, and binocular vision and stereopsis, have regularly been reported at meetings and in the journals of the Society from the beginning. Developments in linear systems theory, now used widely in optics, have spilled over into vision, as has also the use of modem optical techniques involving lasers, coherence, and spatial filtering. In the future, advances in optical technology, such as adaptive optics, now highlighted in the proceedings of the Optical Society of America, will find application in vision research and clinical instrumentation.

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