Abstract
Achieving a high-quality wavefront sensing light spot and accurate wavefront estimation of the rat eye is still challenging due to its large ocular aberrations and the back reflections from fundus multilayer. Simulation and experiments of rat eye wavefront sensing are conducted to improve the quality of sensing spot for accurate wavefront estimation. The simulation results show that a smaller pupil diameter leads to a high quality of wavefront sensing light spot, and the model rat eye reaches diffractive limitation when the pupil diameter is 0.8 mm. However, the experimental results indicate a different conclusion. Consistent with the simulation results, the quality of the sensing light spot significantly improves when the pupil diameter decreases from 3.6 mm to 1.8 mm. The full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the sensing light spots decreases from 77.36 ± 8.95 μm to 26.78 ± 3.25 μm, and the calculated Strehl ratio increases from 0.007 to 0.396. As the pupil diameter continues to decrease to 1.2 mm, the sensing spot and calculated Strehl ratio continue to improve, while the detected low-order aberrations exhibit a significant increase in both value and variance. This observation suggests that using a half-filled pupil for rat wavefront detection may be a more favorable choice, which assists in obtaining high-resolution retinal images in the rat eye using adaptive optics technology.
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