Pablo Artal Blog

DEAR PROFESSOR, YOU MENTIONED A FEW YEARS AGO ABOUT A BOOK YOU WERE EDITING. IT IS ALREADY FINISHED? INESKA, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC.     First, thanks to all who were interested in the han...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2017/03/a-dream-comes-true-handbook-of-visual.html

PROF. ARTAL. I WAS INTERESTED IN ACCOMMODATING INTRAOCULAR LENSES. THE CONCEPT OF RESTORING THE EYE’S ACCOMMODATION AS IN THE YOUNG EYE IS REALLY APPEALING. WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ABOUT THE FUTU...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2016/08/restoring-accommodation-in-prebyopia.html

HI PABLO, I AM NOT A SCIENTIST, BUT I KNOW ABOUT YOUR RESEARCH IN CATARACTS. SINCE MY PARENTS ALREADY SUFFERED THIS CONDITION, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF I SHOULD EXPECT THE SAME IN THE FUTURE. IN ...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2015/12/cataracts-nature-or-nurture.html

DEAR PABLO, WHAT IS IN YOUR OPINION THE MOST APPROPRIATE REFERENCE FOR CENTRATION OF REFRACTIVE PROCEDURES? I READ SOME ABOUT THE ACHROMATIC AXIS, BUT I AM CONFUSED EVEN IN ITS DEFINITION. AMELI...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2015/07/achromatic-axis-and-corneal-reflections.html

This blog is approaching 7 years of existence and this is a special post: the number 100!  During these years, I tried to cover different aspects related to my own research with a mixture of pe...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2015/04/already-100-posts-in-this-blog-and-top-5.html

DEAR PROF. ARTAL. I AM NOT A SCIENTIST, BUT I ENJOY READING YOUR POSTS. THANK YOU. MY MOTHER IN LOW HAS AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION AND I READ A TWIT WHERE YOU WERE MENTIONED AS INVENTOR OF...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2015/04/intraocular-mini-telescopes-for.html

HELLO PABLO, IN A PREVIOUS POST YOU MENTIONED A HANDBOOK OF VISUAL OPTICS YOU WERE PREPARING. IT IS ALREADY AVAILABLE? ALI, MUMBAI, INDIA  The NEW HANDBOOK OF VISUAL OPTICS is well in progre...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-new-handbook-of-visual-optics-is-in.html

PROF. ARTAL, LIGHT IS AN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE AND ALSO A PHOTON PARTICLE. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THIS HAS ANY EFFECT ON HOW WE SEE. ANDRÉS, MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA  Great question for the firs...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2015/01/nature-of-light-and-vision.html

HI PABLO, HOW THE SMALL APERTURE CORNEAL INLAY COMPARES WITH STANDARD MONOVISION TO CORRECT FOR PRESBYOPIA? JIM, ALBUQUERQUE, USA Let me first explain some basic concepts and I will describe ...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2014/12/monovision-or-corneal-inlays-what-is.html

Several years ago I was invited to deliver a tutorial lecture on optics of the eye and its impact in vision at the Optical Society of America (OSA). More recently, I presented several versions o...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2014/09/a-tutorial-on-eyes-optics-and-its.html

This is a simple, a fresh, post to help you fighting the summer hot weather! When travelling, I always try to see around searching for optical phenomena. In many cases, the only reason is to a...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2014/08/optics-is-beautiful-and-is-everywhere.html

DEAR PROFESSOR ARTAL, I AM A PHD STUDENT IN PHILOLOGY. I AM WORKING ON A PAPER THAT DEALS WITH THE RELATION BETWEEN STYLE AND IDEOLOGY IN THE WORKS OF THE “FIN DE SIÈCLE” AUTHORS. I AM READ...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2014/06/optics-in-flauberts-literature.html

HI PABLO. SOME TIME AGO, YOU PRESENTED SOME PRELIMINARY RESULTS ON A NEW TECHNIQUE DEVELOPED TO DETECT THE MOVEMENTS OF THE CRYSTALLINE LENS. I WONDER IF YOU HAVE NEW RESULTS ON THAT VERY INTERE...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2014/04/crystalline-lens-oscillations-wobbling.html

THIS IS A DIFFERENT AND SPECIAL POST! I WAS MYSELF ASKING THE QUESTION THIS TIME… TO VASYL MOLEBNY ON SMIRNOV'S PIONEERING CONTRIBUTION TO ABERRATION MEASUREMENTS IN THE HUMAN EYE. DO NOT MISS...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2014/03/smirnov-by-molebny.html

HELLO DOCTOR. WHAT BOOK YOU WOULD RECOMMEND AS A SINGLE SOURCE OF THE CURRENT STATE OF THE ART IN DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE EYE? THOMAS, VIENNA, AUSTRIA.       ...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-new-handbook-of-visual-optics-in.html

This is a really special post in this blog! The first of 2014 and actually a job offer! Post docs and PhD research positions at Prof. Pablo Artal’s Optics Laboratory in Murcia University, S...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2014/01/open-research-positions-in-optics-in.html

In this post, instead of answering a question myself, I will be asking DAN GREEN to know some details on one of my preferred “classic” papers in Vision Research. A classic paper is widely ci...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2013/12/comments-on-campbell-green-classic.html

This is a short post to serve as advertisement of an interesting (I hope!) event organized by BRIAN VOHNSEN. It is the first Optical Society of America Webinar: “Visual Optics for Christmas! ...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2013/12/visual-optics-for-christmas-open-osa.html

DEAR PROFESSOR. I AM A MEDICAL RESIDENT AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THERE IS A RULE TO DETERMINE THE MINIMUM ASTIGMATISM TO BE CORRECTED. I SUPPOSE THAT IN SOME CASES IF THE CORRECTION IS NOT GO...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2013/10/what-is-minimum-amount-of-astigmatism.html

THIS IS A SPECIAL POST WITHOUT ANY READER’S QUESTION. I RATHER WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT TODAY THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL (ERC) HAVE JUST ANNOUNCED THE RECIPIENTS OF THE 2013 “ADV...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2013/09/advanced-photonics-optics-to-see.html

HI PABLO, YOU MENTIONED THAT THE KAPPA ANGLE VARIES OVER THE HORIZONTAL MERIDIAN. BUT WHAT HAPPENS IN THE VERTICAL DIRECTION? WHAT IS THE AVERAGE VALUE? JOSÉ A.     As frequent readers o...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2013/09/more-on-kappa-angle-of-human-eye.html

HI PROF. ARTAL. I AM A GRADUATE STUDENT OFTEN CONFUSED WITH THE ART OF PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS, IN PARTICULAR ON CITATIONS. SHOULD I CITE ONLY THE PREVIOUS PAPERS THAT HELPED ME WITH MY...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2013/08/all-citations-in-scientific-papers-are.html

In a warm summer night in July 2008, I wrote the first post of this blog describing my intentions (http://pabloartal.blogspot.com.es/2008/07/wellcome-q-blog-format.html?q= ). Honestly, I did ...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2013/07/fifth-anniversary-difficulties-of.html

DEAR PABLO. I LIKED SOME OF YOUR PAST ENTRIES DESCRIBING HOW OUR LENS COMPENSATES FOR A POOR CORNEAL OPTICS. I WONDER IF THE CRYSTALLINE LENS HAS SOME OTHER DISTINCTIVE OPTICAL FEATURE. AAKAR, M...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2013/06/incredible-crystalline-lens-it-is-also.html

CROSSING THE BAFFIN BAY IN MY WAY TO SEATTLE TO ATTEND MY FIRST ARVO MEETING OUTSIDE FLORIDA… I THINK IS A GOOD MOMENT TO SUMMARIZE SOME OF OUR RECENT RESEARCH THAT WE WILL BE PRESENTING THERE...

http://pabloartal.blogspot.com/2013/05/triplet-iols-peripheral-optics-in-amd.html