Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an ophthalmic article including a substrate and a functional wafer securely fastened to a first curved face of the substrate, the manufacturing method including the steps of providing the functional wafer preformed according to a first desired shape, the preformed functional wafer having a first preformed face intended to be applied on the first curved face of the substrate, the first preformed face being defined by first geometrical characteristics; determining second geometrical characteristics of the first curved face of the substrate to be manufactured according to the first geometrical characteristics of the first preformed face of the preformed functional wafer; manufacturing the first curved face according to the second geometrical characteristics determined; fixing the preformed functional wafer to the manufactured substrate by applying the first preformed face on the first curved face in order to form the ophthalmic lens.

An optical element includes a first substrate having a first surface, a resin member disposed on the first surface, and a second substrate disposed above the resin member with a joining member interposed therebetween. The resin member has a first region contacting the joining member and a second region surrounding the first region and not contacting the joining member. An inclined portion having a thickness increasing from a starting point located in the second region toward an outer circumference of the resin member, is disposed in the second region. A tangent of the first surface, orthogonal to a normal of the first surface passing through the starting point, and a straight line passing through the starting point and a point at which the inclined portion has a largest thickness, form an angle of 25° or more and 45° or less.

A lens with an embedded foil is produced, comprising the steps of providing a first mold and a second mold, providing a functional foil, positioning and attaching the functional foil on the first mold, aligning the second mold relatively to the first mold, sealing the mold cavity between the first mold and the second mold, and filling a curable monomer mixture into the mold cavity, wherein either the molds are heated before the alignment step or the molds are heated after the sealing step and the following filling step is conducted with a heated monomer, or the heating of the molds follows the filling step of the UV curable monomer, followed by a UV curing step of the heated UV curable monomer mixture within the heated mold cavity.

A tuneable contact lens (100), wherein the contact lens comprises a central region (108). The central region has a circumferential wall and an anterior surface having an external curvature. The contact lens also comprises an inflatable ring (106) arranged around the circumferential wall of the central region, and at least one fluid reservoir (104) in fluid connection with the inflatable ring. The at least one fluid reservoir comprises a pump. When fluid is pumped from the at least one fluid reservoir to the inflatable ring, the inflatable ring inflates and the external curvature of anterior portion of the central region is changed.

Provided is a polarizing sheet that can precisely impart a desired curved shape without causing whitening when bending is carried out. A polarizing sheet of an embodiment of the present invention having a structure in which a polyamide resin film (1), a polarizing film, and a polyamide resin film (2) are laminated in this order, wherein a retardation value of the polyamide resin film (1) is from 10 to 3000 nm, and the retardation value of the polyamide resin film (1) and a retardation value of the polyamide resin film (2) satisfy Formula (r):

[Retardation Value of Polyamide Resin Film (1)]−[Retardation Value of Polyamide Resin Film (2)]≥10 nm   (r).

A lens includes a glass layer and a plastic layer. The glass layer has a first glass side disposed opposite of a second glass side. The plastic layer has a first plastic side disposed opposite of a second plastic side. The first plastic side of the plastic layer is bonded to the second glass side of the glass layer. The outside plastic boundary of the plastic layer extends past an outside glass boundary of the glass layer.

An ophthalmic lens and a method of manufacturing the ophthalmic lens, the ophthalmic lens including a base lens that includes at least a layer of low-birefringence material and at least one holographic component recorded on a surface of the layer of low-birefringence material, and an auxiliary lens assembled to the base lens.

A method for producing an accommodative intraocular lens includes providing first and second components and a support body with an interior space and open to the top, fastening the first component to the support body, generating pressure which is higher in the exterior space than in the interior space such that the first component deforms downward, producing an adhesive surface on the upper side of the first component and/or on the second component, applying a liquid to the first component from above into the latter's downwardly deformed region, the liquid at no time contacting the adhesive surface, fastening the second component to the first component with the adhesive surface, as a result of which the accommodative intraocular lens is formed and the liquid is encapsulated with the first component and the second component in a cavity arranged in the interior of the intraocular lens.

Apparatus and methods are described including adhering a first lens to a second lens such as to form a combined lens having a given optical design, by placing the first lens and the second lens in respective first and second pressure chambers with an adhesive layer disposed between the first lens and the second lens, bringing a convex surface of the first lens into contact with the adhesive layer, and bringing a concave surface of the second lens into contact with the adhesive layer. Other applications are also described.

A laminate, including a substrate having a microstructure on a surface thereof; and a coating layer formed on the substrate and encapsulating the microstructure of the substrate. A glass transition temperature T.sub.1 of the substrate is higher than a glass transition temperature T.sub.2 of the coating layer. A method of producing an ophthalmic lens, including deforming the laminate into a shape of the ophthalmic lens by applying heat and/or pressure at a temperature of lower than T.sub.1.