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JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION
Volume 22, Issue 11, Pages 2318-2328Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.002318
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The photoreceptors of the living human eye are known to exhibit waveguide-characteristic features. This is evidenced by the Stiles-Crawford effect observed for light incident near the pupil rim, and by the directional component of light reflected off the retina in the related optical Stiles-Crawford effect. We describe a model for the coupling of light to/from photoreceptors on the basis of waveguide theory that includes diffraction between the eye pupil and the photoreceptor apertures, and we show that valuable insight can be gained from a Gaussian approximation to the mode field. We apply this knowledge to a detailed study of the relationship between the Stiles-Crawford effect and its optical counterpart. (c) 2005 Optical Society of America.
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