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US 5,625,427 AGranted
Ophthalmic lens
AssigneeCorning Incorporated
InventorsRoger J. Araujo, Nicholas F. Borrelli, Josef C. Lapp, David W. Morgan
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AssigneeCorning Incorporated
InventorsRoger J. Araujo, Nicholas F. Borrelli, Josef C. Lapp, David W. Morgan
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An ophthalmic lens of photochromic glass having an R.sub.2 O-Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 -B.sub.2 O.sub.3 -SiO.sub.2 base glass composition and a method of producing the lens. The lens contains precipitated cuprous halide crystals that are elongated and oriented, whereby the lens is capable of polarizing light when the lens is in the darkened state. If at least a portion of the crystals in at least a surface layer on the lens are reduced to copper metal, the lens exhibits a permanent dichroic behavior. The lens provides effective polarization of radiation across the entire visible wavelength region of the spectrum, has a sharp spectral cutoff for radiation below the 400 nm wavelength, thereby eliminating UV transmission, and has a transmittance not over about 40% in the darkened state.
An ophthalmic lens of photochromic glass having an R.sub.2 O-Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 -B.sub.2 O.sub.3 -SiO.sub.2 base glass composition, the lens containing precipitated cuprous halide crystals that are elongated and oriented, whereby the lens, in the darkened state, exhibits dichroic behavior and provides polarization of radiation across the entire visible wavelength region of the spectrum, the lens having a sharp spectral cutoff for radiation below the 400 nm wavelength, thereby eliminating UV transmission, the lens having a transmittance not over about 40% in the darkened state and a ratio of phase shift due to birefringence that is not less than about 0.7.
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