INVESTIGATION OF MUELLER MATRICES OF ANISOTROPIC NONHOMOGENEOUS LAYERS IN APPLICATION TO AN OPTICAL-MODEL OF THE CORNEA

We consider a system of anisotropic layers as an optical model of the eye cornea. Effective refraction indices for normally incident light a re calculated with the assumption that each layer consists of closely packed uniform cylinders (fibrils). Jones matrix formalism is used to describe light propagation through the cornea. We calculate the Jones matrices from the experimentally measured Mueller matrices. Two algori thms are used for this purpose. The experiments have shown that simila r to 20% of cornea area studied had the structure well described by th e helical model proposed. (C) 1997 Optical Society of America