A method of producing an optical device from a volume of a curable composition, includes the following steps: —polymerizing a first portion of the volume by irradiating an external surface of the volume with a light irradiation, thereby increasing a transmittance of the first portion for the light irradiation; —polymerizing a second portion of the volume by irradiating the second portion with the light irradiation through the external surface and the polymerized first portion, wherein the light irradiation has a light intensity varying over the external surface between a first light intensity and a second light intensity distinct from the second light intensity. A corresponding system is also described.

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.

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.

A method of producing an optical device from a volume of a curable composition, includes the following steps: polymerizing a first portion of the volume by irradiating an external surface of the volume with a light irradiation, thereby increasing a transmittance of the first portion for the light irradiation; polymerizing a second portion of the volume by irradiating the second portion with the light irradiation through the external surface and the polymerized first portion, wherein the light irradiation has a light intensity varying over the external surface between a first light intensity and a second light intensity distinct from the second light intensity. A corresponding system is also described.

An insert assembly for the purpose of an injection mold for manufacturing a first casting mold half of a casting mold for manufacture of an ophthalmic device, wherein the insert assembly is receivable in an injection mold half of the injection mold and wherein the insert assembly includes an insert assembly end surface which bounds an injection mold cavity of the injection mold for forming a first casting mold half. The insert end surface is provided with at least one notch which forms a bounding structure cavity for forming a bounding structure which is an integral part of the first casting mold half to be formed with the injection mold and which, after placement of a second casting mold half on the first casting mold half, bounds at least one haptics cavity which links up with a lens cavity, wherein the haptics cavity is so configured that in use of the casting mold, after curing of monomeric material deposited in the casting mold, an intraocular lens is formed which comprises a lens and integrally formed-on haptics.

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.

A method of manufacturing an artificial eye for fitting as a whole or partial replacement of a patient's original eye. This is done by providing an image of an iris on a substrate (100, 300) comprising at least a frontal region of an artificial eye, providing a support (108, 308) for the substrate, positioning the substrate and support in a mould (122, 322), and encapsulating the substrate within a mould material (136, 336).