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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 38, Issue 22, Pages 4747-4749Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.004747
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK) [EP/D036550/1, EP/G015473/1]
- EPSRC [EP/D036550/1, EP/G015473/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/D036550/1, EP/G015473/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We used adaptive optics to determine the effect of monochromatic aberration dynamics on the level of chaos in the accommodation control system. Four participants viewed a stationary target while the dynamics of their aberrations were either left uncorrected, defocus was corrected, or all aberrations except defocus were corrected. Chaos theory analysis was used to discern changes in the accommodative microfluctuations. We found a statistically significant reduction in the chaotic nature of the accommodation microfluctuations during correction of defocus, but not when all aberrations except defocus were corrected. The Lyapunov exponent decreased from 0.71 +/- 0.07 D/s (baseline) to 0.55 +/- 0.03 D/s (correction of defocus fluctuations). As the reduction of chaos in physiological signals is indicative of stress to the system, the results indicate that for the participants included in this study, fluctuations in defocus have a more profound effect than those of the other aberrations. There were no changes in the power spectrum between experimental conditions. Hence chaos theory analysis is a more subtle marker of changes in the accommodation control system and will be of value in the study of myopia onset and progression. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
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