There are provided a lens having excellent mechanical strength, as well as an optical component employing the lens. The lens is a lens having a circular shape when viewed in a plan view, the lens having a thickness of not less than 1 mm and not more than 11 mm at a lens center, the lens having a lens diameter of not less than 2 mm and not more than 50 mm, the lens having a curvature of not less than −0.5 mm.sup.−1 and not more than 0.5 mm.sup.−1 at the lens center.

A lens pigment suitable for manufacturing value documents by printing technology, includes a carrier substrate which forms a lens base and which is supplied on its front side with a first plastic having at least one elevation that produces a microlens and with a second plastic leveling the first plastic.

Disclosed herein is a method for manufacturing a high-refractive polarized lens, the method comprises; pretreating both surfaces of the TAC film; preparing a pretreated polarized film by attaching the pretreated TAC film to both sides of a PVA film; forming the prepared pretreated polarized film into a lens shape; placing the formed pretreated polarized film on a mold for manufacturing a lens; injecting a polythiourethane-based resin into a lens manufacturing mold on which the pretreated polarized film is placed; and cooling the polythiourethane-based resin while the mold is fixed.

The present invention relates to ophthalmic lenses comprising an oxazolone, a preparation method thereof and the use of an oxazolone in an ophthalmic lens to absorb blue light.

This application discloses an optical element having a refractive lens array and a diffuser, both positioned on the same side of the optical element. A method of manufacturing such an optical element is also described herein.

An optical glass contains: a P.sub.2O.sub.5 component of 30 to 60 mass % (exclusive of 30); an Al.sub.2O.sub.3 component of 2 to 10 mass % (exclusive of 2); a TiO.sub.2 component of 10 to 36 mass % (exclusive of 36); an Nb.sub.2O.sub.5 component of 0 to 5 mass %; a Ta.sub.2O.sub.5 component of 0 to 15 mass %; a Bi.sub.2O.sub.3 component of 0 to 5 mass % (exclusive of 5); and an Sb.sub.2O.sub.3 component of 0 to 1 mass %; and a BaO component of 1 to 20 mass %.

An ophthalmic lens incorporating an array of microlenses.

An ophthalmic lens incorporating an array of microlenses.

A method for producing an aperture array for a microlens array, in particular for a microlens array of a vehicle headlamp, comprising at least the following steps: providing a wafer having a microlens array arranged on a first wafer surface, masking a second wafer surface of the wafer by means of a shadow mask, wherein the shadow mask includes a negative of the aperture array, coating the masked wafer surface with an opaque layer, removing the shadow mask and obtaining the aperture array on the second wafer surface.

Implementations of a microlens system may include a first layer including a first refractive index, the first layer including one or more substantially hemispherical elements formed therein; a second layer including a second refractive index coupled over the substantially hemispherical elements of the first layer; and a third layer including a third refractive index coupled over the second layer. A value of the first refractive index may be larger than a value of the third refractive index and a value of the second refractive index and the value of the second refractive index may be less than a value of the third refractive index.