Aspherics in spectacle lenses

Juan Carlos Dürsteler

doi:10.1515/aot-2016-0025

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Aspherics in spectacle lenses

Juan Carlos Dürsteler

Published/Copyright: September 2, 2016

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From the journal Advanced Optical Technologies Volume 5 Issue 5-6

Abstract

A review of the use of aspherics in the last decades, understood in a broad sense as encompassing single-vision lenses with conicoid surfaces and free-form and progressive addition lenses (PALs) as well, is provided. The appearance of conicoid surfaces to correct aphakia and later to provide thinner and more aesthetically appealing plus lenses and the introduction of PALs and free-form surfaces have shaped the advances in spectacle lenses in the last three decades. This document basically considers the main target optical aberrations, the idiosyncrasy of single lenses for correction of refractive errors and the restrictions and particularities of PAL design and their links to science vision and perception.

Keywords: conicoid surfaces; ophthalmic lenses; opthalmic optics; free-form lenses; progressive lenses

Corresponding author: Juan Carlos Dürsteler, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer, Indo Horizons, INDO Optical SLU, C/Alcalde Barnils, 72, Sant Cugat del Vallès E08714, Spain

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Received: 2016-4-15

Accepted: 2016-7-22

Published Online: 2016-9-2

Published in Print: 2016-12-1

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Keywords for this article

conicoid surfaces; ophthalmic lenses; opthalmic optics; free-form lenses; progressive lenses