Multizone Bifocal Contact Lens Design

Stanley A Klein; Zhuo-Yan Ho

doi:10.1117/12.939564

19 December 1986 Multizone Bifocal Contact Lens Design

Stanley A Klein, Zhuo-Yan Ho

Proceedings Volume 0679, Current Developments in Optical Engineering and Diffraction Phenomena; (1986) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.939564
Event: 30th Annual Technical Symposium, 1986, San Diego, United States

Abstract

A satisfactory bifocal contact lens has not yet reached the marketplace because of deficiencies in the present designs. The two-zone concentric design allows both the near and far images to be present simultaneously, however the image quality is not very good. Recently several new bifocal contact lenses with multiple zones have been suggested. This paper presents computer calculations of the image quality of several of these new designs. The zone-plate design, with an intermediate blaze angle, gives the best image quality of the lenses that were examined.

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Stanley A Klein and Zhuo-Yan Ho "Multizone Bifocal Contact Lens Design", Proc. SPIE 0679, Current Developments in Optical Engineering and Diffraction Phenomena, (19 December 1986); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.939564

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