Deviations of Lambert-Beer’s law affect corneal refractive parameters after refractive surgery Jiménez Cuesta, José Ramón Rodríguez Marín, Francisco González Anera, María Del Rosario Jiménez Del Barco Jaldo, Luis Miguel Ablation of tissue Ophthalmology Lambert-Beer's law We calculate whether deviations of Lambert-Beer’s law, which regulates depth ablation during corneal ablation, significantly influence corneal refractive parameters after refractive surgery and whether they influence visual performance. For this, we compute a point-to-point correction on the cornea while assuming a non-linear (including a quadratic term) fit for depth ablation. Post-surgical equations for refractive parameters using a non-linear fit show significant differences with respect to parameters obtained from a linear fit (Lambert-Beer’s law). Differences were also significant for corneal aberrations. These results show that corneal-ablation algorithms should include analytical information on deviations from Lambert-Beer’s law for achieving an accurate eye correction. 2014-07-18T11:53:05Z 2014-07-18T11:53:05Z 2006 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Jiménez, J.R.; et al. Deviations of Lambert-Beer’s law affect corneal refractive parameters after refractive surgery. Optics Express, 14(12): 5411-5417 (2006). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/32718] 1094-4087 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/32718 10.1364/OE.14.005411 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Optical Society of America