The present invention provides a 3D printing method for a complex curved hollow structure. The 3D printing method comprises the following steps: firstly, manufacturing a bottom die attached with the complex curved hollow structure, and molding the complex curved hollow structure on a molding surface C of the bottom die by taking the bottom die as a support, wherein the molding of the bottom die and the molding of the complex curved hollow structure are completed in the same world coordinate system, and the bottom die does not need to be taken down from an objective table and then transplanted into a printing system of a to-be-molded part. The 3D printing method has the advantage that a high-precision complex curved hollow structure can be manufactured.

In a method for the manufacture of a transmissive optical system from a blank, material ablation is achieved on the blank with an ablative laser, and the pulse duration of the ablative laser is less than 1 ns, and preferably lies between 3 fs and 100 fs, or between 100 fs and 10 ps.

An ophthalmological implant includes a main structure with a central aperture, a first side, and a second side arranged opposite the first side. It further includes a plurality of pigment arrangements arranged in the main structure, at least one of the pigment arrangements includes at least one color pigment and an enclosure that encloses at least most of the at least one color pigment.

A method of altering a refractive property of a crosslinked acrylic polymer material by irradiating the material with a high energy pulsed laser beam to change its refractive index. The method is used to alter the refractive property, and hence the optical power, of an implantable intraocular lens after implantation in the patient's eye. In some examples, the wavelength of the laser beam is in the far red and near IR range and the light is absorbed by the crosslinked acrylic polymer via two-photon absorption at high laser pulse energy. The method also includes designing laser beam scan patterns that compensate for effects of multiphone absorption such as a shift in the depth of the laser pulse absorption location, and compensate for effects caused by high laser pulse energy such as thermal lensing. The method can be used to form a Fresnel lens in the optical zone.

A mandrel for holding and positioning an intraocular lens blank during manufacturing includes a shank portion having a central axis and a lens blank holding section configured to hold the lens blank. The holding section includes a central cavity formed concentrically with the central axis of the mandrel. Projections are formed on a surface of the central cavity and are configured to support a first surface of the lens blank at a fixed distance from the surface of the central cavity. A ring fits within a peripheral portion of the central cavity to hold a second opposing surface of the lens blank. A method for making an intraocular lens using the mandrel includes filling the space formed under the first surface of the lens with a liquid, such as water, freezing the liquid, and then machining and/or milling the second surface of the lens blank.

Intraocular implants and methods of making intraocular implants are provided. The intraocular implants can improve the vision of a patient, such as by increasing the depth of focus of an eye of a patient. In particular, the intraocular implants can include a mask having an annular portion with a relatively low visible light transmission surrounding a relatively high transmission central portion such as a clear lens or aperture. This construct is adapted to provide an annular mask with a small aperture for light to pass through to the retina to increase depth of focus. The intraocular implant may have an optical power for refractive correction. The intraocular implant may be implanted in any location along the optical pathway in the eye, e.g., as an implant in the anterior or posterior chamber.

The invention relates to an intraocular lens with extended depth of focus including aspheric anterior and posterior optical surfaces.

An apparatus useful for rapidly producing at least one object having a contoured surface portion from a light-polymerizable resin is provided. The apparatus includes (a) a window containing an inhibitor of polymerization, on which window a coating of light polymerizable resin can be placed, with the inhibitor of polymerization forming a first dead zone of unpolymerizable resin in the light polymerizable resin; (b) a polymerizing light source operatively associated with the window and positioned for projecting polymerizing light through the window; (c) a controller operatively associated with said light source and configured to pattern and project said polymerizing light at a first light dosage sufficient to form the object in the resin under stationary conditions, while spatially modulating the first light dosage so that the first dead zone is spatially contoured in thickness, to produce a first contoured surface portion on each object, which first contoured surface portion is in contact with the first dead zone of unpolymerizable resin.

An intraocular lens and a method of constructing the intraocular lens are described. The intraocular lens is implanted in a human eye to treat conditions of the eye. The intraocular lens includes a central deformable optic and an annular ring coupled to the deformable optic. The intraocular lens is made by subjecting the deformable optic to compressive forces that reduce the optical power of the deformable optic, and then molding the annular lens to the deformable optic while the deformable optic is undergoing the compressive forces. Once the compressive forces are released, the deformable optic stresses the annular ring along a radial axis of the deformable optic when the intraocular lens is in a natural, unstressed state. The stress or tension between the deformable optic and the annular ring keep the deformable optic from developing deformities that cause visual aberrations.

A continuous additive fabrication system comprises a bath of photopolymer resin and a light source assembly having a light source and a motorized variable aperture. The light source assembly is operable to generate a focus point in the bath of photopolymer resin, the shape of the focus point at a curing plane within the bath of photopolymer resin corresponding to the shape of the motorized variable aperture. The continuous additive fabrication system further comprises a platform configured to support a build object and a drive mechanism (coupled to at least one of the platform and the light source assembly) configured to continuously move the curing plane through the bath of photopolymer resin. A size and/or shape of the motorized variable aperture is changed while the curing plane in continuously moved through the bath of photopolymer resin.