Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-1987
Publication Title
American Journal of Physics
Abstract
If a narrow line stimulus on an opposite contrast background is observed with appropriately misfocused vision, the stimulus appears as a number of alternating bright and dark fringes. A numerical calculation of this effect was performed. As a result it was found that the banding phenomenon is a Fresnel diffraction effect depending on the details of both the narrow line stimulus and the eye pupil.
Repository Citation
Lock, James A., "Fresnel Diffraction Effects in Misfocused Vision" (1987). Physics Faculty Publications. 67.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sciphysics_facpub/67
Original Citation
Lock, James A. "Fresnel Diffraction Effects in Misfocused Vision." American Journal of Physics 55 (1987): 265-269.
DOI
10.1119/1.15175
Version
Postprint
Publisher's Statement
Copyright 1987 American Association of Physics Teachers. The following article appeared in American Journal of Physics 55 (1987): 265-269 and may be found at http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1119/1.15175
Volume
55
Issue
3
