Deflectometric analysis of high volume injection molds for production of occupational eye wear.

Purpose: Most of the protective eye wear devices currently on the market are manufactured on simple polycarbonate shields, produced by injection molding techniques. Despite high importance of optical quality, injection molds are rarely inspected for surface quality before or during the manufacturing process. Quality degradation is mainly monitored by optical testing of the molded parts.

Inspection of freeform intraocular lens topography by phase measuring deflectometric methods.

Manufacturing spherical, aspheric, and freeform surfaces requires testing throughout the development and production process. State-of-the-art topography measurement is limited in applicability for intraocular lenses (IOLs), and there is no dedicated commercial surface measurement system available for freeform IOLs. The purpose of this work was to validate a deflectometric setup for surface measurement, detection of defects, and shape fidelity analysis for the development and production of IOLs.

Wave-front analysis of personal eye protection.

Shack-Hartmann wave-front sensing has been successfully applied to many fields of optical testing including the human eye itself. We propose wave-front measurement for testing protective eye wear for production control and investigation of aberrations. Refractive power data is derived from the wave-front data and compared to a subjective measurement technique based on a focimeter.

Experimental assessment of eye protection efficiency against high speed projectiles.

Introduction: Work in hazardous zones with the risk of mechanical injuries requires protection with safety spectacles. Mechanical eye injuries with metal foreign bodies are often caused by rotational material machining or production processes with high pressure or high velocity moving parts. Normative regulations restrict to tests with small and fast flying objects (e.