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    Brief Course Description

    Rx Sunwear Rimless Eyewear


    This course starts with a presentation of the potentially adverse effects of
    ultraviolet radiation (UV) on the eyes and then identifies ways to protect the visual
    system from over exposure to UV. It goes on to include a brief presentation of the
    electromagnetic spectrum and illustrates where ultraviolet, visible light, and infrared fit
    in to the overall spectrum. The subject of tints, coatings, density designations for
    plastic and glass lenses, is covered.

    Photochromic lenses have always been about change, starting with the first
    photochromic lenses that were invented back in the 1960’s. Then, as now, the primary
    motivation behind photochromic lenses was to produce a lens that was clear indoors and
    would darken automatically into an effective sunglass when the wearer went outside.
    Photochromic technology began with glass. Consumer fascination with the earliest
    glass photochromic lenses occurred just as CR-39® lenses had begun gaining
    momentum. However, it would take the industry another 30 years to develop a
    commercially viable plastic photochromic lens. Today, years after the introduction of
    the first commercially viable plastic photochromic lenses, the various technologies that
    give lenses their photochromic characteristics continue to evolve.

    Polarized lenses have become one of the fastest growing lens categories for
    prescription sunwear in recent years. In fact, many ophthalmic professionals and their
    patients feel that polarized lenses are the best sunglasses available due to their ability to
    dramatically reduce glare. And new manufacturing techniques have significantly
    improved the products which are now available on the market.

    First introduced in the 1930s, polarized lenses are now available in a variety of lens
    materials, styles and prescription ranges which include plano, flat-top bifocals and
    trifocals, and progressives. And lens materials available in polarization include CR 39,
    high index 1.56, polycarbonate, photochromic plastic, and photochromic glass.

    Frames requiring lenses with steeper than usual base curves, also known as “wrap”
    eyewear, have become popular as sunglasses in recent years. Here, in the concluding
    section of this course, we discuss the potential optical problems and possible solutions
    that can be created when steeper than usual base curves are used.