The optic nerve of the human eye is the cable–like grouping of nerve fibres formed from the axons of ganglion cells that transmit visual information towards the lateral geniculate nucleus.
- The optic nerve contains around a million fibres that transport continuous stream of data which have been received from rods, cones and the intermediate neuron types, bipolar and amacrine cells.
- The optic nerve is a parallel communication cable that enables every fibre to represent distinct information about the presence of light in each region of the visual field.