REDO: Spanish Meeting of Optical Designers

On October 6^th, 2011 researchers from Indo Lens Group attended the 1st Meeting of Spanish Optical Designers (REDO) organized by the SECPhO (Southern European Cluster in Optics and Photonics) and Kidger Optics. The meeting was held in the CeDInt facilities, located in the campus of the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

In the meeting, many research results were presented, both public and private entities, all related to different applications in various fields of optics. Indo presented in poster format, the optic principles of the innovative progressive lens called “Maxima”, that is the first commercial output form the work developed in the FP7 project Made4U. (see www.made4U.info).

Indo’s R&D researchers that presented the poster related to the optic principles of the lens “Maxima”. From left to right: Ing. Javier Vegas, PhD Sara Chamadoira and Dr. Manel Espínola

Maxima lenses caused a great interest among the attendees. This innovative lens design takes advantage of the frame contour to optimize the lens thickness and optical performance to an unprecedented improvement of lateral vision field thanks to a reduction of 40% of the lens aberrations as can be seen in the picture below: 

maxima lens and right conventional progressive lens of equal dioptric power

This innovative lens was recently awarded with the nomination to the “Silmo d’Or 2011”  in the lens category.