A study by James S. McLellan, PhD, and colleagues found that higher-order aberrations may exist to offset chromatic aberrations.
“Researchers found that higher-order aberrations balance out chromatic aberrations so that we don’t see chromatic rainbows around objects or light,” Dr. Holladay said.
Chroma or “rainbows” present when white light is prismatically dispersed. The normal human eye has approximately 1.5 D of clinical chromatic aberration, between red and blue. However, the negative effects of chroma are typically not experienced because higher-order aberrations, ocular imperfections that are traditionally thought to cause vision problems, cancel out the chromatic blur.
“It’s important for clinicians and researchers to understand that removing higher-order aberrations will cause chromatic aberrations to become more significant,” Dr. Holladay said.
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