Notes:

The second type of potential benefit of correcting the eye's optics is clear vision by the patient, which requires a clearly focussed retinal image of the outside world. By using the liquid crystal lens to pre-distort the wavefronts from objects in the world to make them equal, but opposite, to the eye's aberrations we can compensate for the eye's imperfections to produce a perfect retinal image.

As part of his graduate studies at the Institute of Optics, Don Miller participated in some pioneering experiments which demonstrated the improvements in visual sensitivity that resulted from correcting the eye's aberrations. He used different technology in those experiments, which consisted of a computer-controlled deformable mirror that did the same job we are trying to do with the liquid crystals. We aren't quite there yet with our system, but I believe it is only a matter of time before we will be able to replicate Don's earlier experience and begin then to explore the extent to which the quality of our visual experience can improve by perfecting the eye's optical system.