Patent ID: 8349006

Claim:
A process of fabricating an intraocular lens (IOL), the process comprising: providing a blank lens having a center lens optical portion, a surrounding lens portion, and at least one haptic coupled to the surrounding lens portion, wherein the center lens optical portion focuses incoming light toward the retina of an eye, and the surrounding lens portion has an anterior surface, a posterior surface, and a peripheral edge surface, said peripheral edge surface intersecting at least one of said anterior and posterior surfaces; roughening the peripheral edge surface such that the peripheral edge surface has a glare-reducing rough surface with a surface roughness level of about Ra 180 μ in; the rough surface having a Gaussian distribution width sigma of at least 1 when illuminated by an incident light beam, and scattering data from the illuminated rough surface is fitted to a Gaussian distribution model, the incident light beam having a wavelength of 633 nanometers and illuminating the surface at a 55 degree incident light angle; and wherein the center lens optical portion has no surface roughening applied thereto.