Ocular optics is normally estimated based on 2,600 measurement points within the pupil of the eye, which implies a lateral resolution of approximately 175 microns for a 9 mm pupil diameter. This is because information below this resolution is not thought to be relevant or even possible to obtain with current measurement systems. In this work, we characterize the in vivo ocular optics of the human eye with a lateral resolution of 8.6 microns, which implies roughly 1 million measurement points for a pupil diameter of 9 mm. The results suggest that the normal human eye presents a series of hitherto unknown optical patterns with amplitudes between 200 and 300 nm and is made up of a series of in-phase peaks and valleys. If the results are analysed at only high lateral frequencies, the human eye is also found to contain a whole range of new information. This discovery could have a great impact on the way we understand some fundamental mechanisms of human vision and could be of outstanding utility in certain fields of ophthalmology.

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人眼的光学元件，横向分辨率为8.6μm

通常根据眼睛瞳孔内的2,600个测量点来估算光学镜片，这意味着9 mm瞳孔直径的横向分辨率约为175微米。这是因为低于该分辨率的信息被认为与当前的测量系统无关，甚至是不可能获得的。在这项工作中，我们用8.6微米的横向分辨率来表征人眼的体内眼部光学器件，这对于9 m​​m的瞳孔直径意味着大约100万个测量点。结果表明，正常的人眼呈现出一系列迄今为止未知的光学图案，其幅度在200至300 nm之间，并且由一系列同相的峰和谷组成。如果仅在较高的侧向频率下分析结果，则还发现人眼包含整个范围的新信息。