Ophthalmological optical element and method for constructing an ophthalmological optical element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10831040-B2
Application number	US-201616063657-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2016
Priority date	Dec 18, 2015
Publication date	Nov 10, 2020
Grant date	Nov 10, 2020

Abstract

An ophthalmological optical element, in particular a spectacle lens, includes a first refractive optical substrate, which has a positive or negative first optical power; a first diffractive optical element, which has a second optical power; and a second diffractive optical element, which has a third optical power. The first diffractive optical element and the second diffractive optical element have opposite optical powers. The first diffractive optical element and the second diffractive optical element interact in an at least partly achromatic manner.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An ophthalmic element, in particular a spectacle lens, comprising:
a first refractive optical substrate, which has a positive or negative first optical power;
a first diffractive optical element, which has a second optical power; and
a second diffractive optical element, which has a third optical power,
wherein the first diffractive optical element and the second diffractive optical element have opposite optical powers, and
wherein the first diffractive optical element and the second diffractive optical element interact in an at least partly achromatic manner.

2. The ophthalmic element as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first diffractive optical element and the second diffractive optical element interact in an achromatic manner together with the first refractive optical substrate.

3. The ophthalmic element as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the absolute value of the sum of the second optical power of the first diffractive optical element and of the third optical power of the second diffractive optical element divided by an absolute value of the difference between the second optical power, and the third optical power is less than 1/10.

4. The ophthalmic element as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first optical substrate has a front surface and a back surface and wherein at least one of the first diffractive optical element is arranged on the side of the front surface and the second diffractive optical element is arranged on the side of the back surface.

5. The ophthalmic element as claimed in claim 1 , comprising a second optical substrate that has at least one of the first diffractive optical element and the second diffractive optical element.

6. The ophthalmic element as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the first optical substrate has a front surface and a back surface and wherein the second optical substrate is arranged on the side of the front surface or the back surface of the first optical substrate.

7. The ophthalmic element as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the second optical substrate comprises a film, a glass or a plastics shell.

8. The ophthalmic element as claimed in claim 5 , wherein a cemented layer or an air gap is arranged between the first optical substrate and the second optical substrate.

9. The ophthalmic element as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first and second diffractive optical elements is produced by a process including at least one of laser-beam writing, stamping, holographic exposure and photolithography.

10. The ophthalmic element as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first and second diffractive optical elements is rotationally symmetric with respect to an optical axis.

11. The ophthalmic element as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first and second diffractive optical element are each described by a phase polynomial of a second or higher order in a cross-sectional plane, wherein, with a tolerance range of ±20%, the following relationship applies between a first coefficient a 1,DOE1 of the phase polynomial of the first diffractive optical element and a first coefficient a 1,DOE2 of the phase polynomial of the second diffractive optical element:

|

a

1
,

DOE
⁢

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1

a

1
,

DOE
⁢

⁢
1

+

a

1
⁢
DOE
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2

|

=

20

D

⁢

d

,

wherein D specifies a resultant additional optical power by the first and second diffractive optical element, d specifies a distance between the first and second diffractive optical element and λ 0 specifies a design wavelength.

12. The ophthalmic element as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising at least one of an astigmatic effect and a differently focusing effect in a near and far part.

13. A pair of spectacles comprising a frame, a first spectacle lens and a second spectacle lens, wherein at least one of the first and second spectacle lenses is an ophthalmic element as claimed in claim 1 .

14. A head-mounted display apparatus comprising an ophthalmic element as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the ophthalmic element further comprises:
an input coupling optical unit that, by means of the first optical substrate of the ophthalmic element, is configured to input couple an image to be displayed.

15. A computer-implemented method for designing an ophthalmic element, in particular a spectacle lens, for a user, wherein the ophthalmic element includes a first optical substrate, which has a positive or negative first optical power; a first diffractive optical element, which has a second optical power; and a second diffractive optical element, which has a third optical power, wherein the first diffractive optical element and the second diffractive optical element have opposite optical powers and wherein the first diffractive optical element and the second diffractive optical element interact in an at least partly achromatic manner, wherein the method includes the following steps:
selecting the first optical substrate, which has a positive or negative first optical power, according to a diopter range to be corrected; and
providing the first diffractive optical element, which has the second optical power, and the second diffractive optical element, which has the third optical power.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the first and second diffractive optical element are selected in such a way that an absolute value of the sum of the second optical power of the first diffractive optical element and of the third optical power of the second diffractive optical element divided by an absolute value of the difference between the second optical power and the third optical power is less than 1/10.

17. The method as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the first optical substrate is selected from a set of predetermined first optical substrates, wherein each of the predetermined optical substrat

Assignees

• tooz technologies GmbH

Inventors

• Dobschal Hans-Juergen
• Lindig Karsten

Classifications

• G02B27/0172

  characterised by optical features · CPC title

• G02C7/02 Primary

  Lenses; Lens systems {; Methods of designing lenses} · CPC title

• G02C2202/20

  Diffractive and Fresnel lenses or lens portions · CPC title

• G02B27/4211

  correcting chromatic aberrations (G02B27/0056, G02B27/4222, G02B27/4227 take precedence) · CPC title

• G02B27/4272

  having plural diffractive elements positioned sequentially along the optical path · CPC title