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Oakley Technical Lens Info
Selecting the Ideal Lens
Whether you're changing your look or optimizing your vision for changing light conditions, Oakley offers a full spectrum of lens color options. More than 40 lens hues have been formulated to precisely balance transmission, absorption and reflection of light, depending on the targeted environment for usage. Oakley optics are made of lightweight Plutonite® lens material, an innovation that blocks 100% of UV while maintaining superior impact resistance. Optional Iridium® lens coatings are engineered to tune transmission for specific light conditions. Oakley technology also produces the best polarized lenses on the planet. Even prescription correction is available, achieved with custom-ground optical precision that exceeds industry standards.
Polarized Vs. Non Polarized
Light waves "roll" at every angle. Imagine a curl traveling down a bullwhip. If the whip moves from side to side, the curl is parallel to the ground. If the whip moves up and down, the curl is perpendicular to the ground. Waves can roll down the whip at any angle. That's how light waves travel, except when they reflect off flat surfaces. This causes them to align so they all roll in the side-to-side direction. The result is blinding glare. A polarizer is a filter that blocks certain angles of wave roll. Imagine the bullwhip is fed between the slats of a fence. Only the up-and-down waves can make it between the slats. A polarizer does the same thing with light waves, eliminating glare by blocking the side-to-side waves that blind you.
UV Protection
You can be blinded by what you can't see. An invisible form of radiation, UV rays pelt your retinas at 186,000 miles per second. Eye damage linked to UV includes cataract, a condition where the eye lens becomes opaque so light can't get through. UV is also linked to photokeratitis (sunburn of the cornea), pterygium (tissue growth that can block vision), and macular degeneration (damage to the part of the inner eye that receives light patterns and transmits them to the brain).
Oakley's Plutonite® lens material is engineered to stop every wavelength of ultraviolet radiation, not just the lower energy form called "UVA". In fact, Plutonite® inherently blocks 100% of UVA, UVB, UVC and harmful blue light up to 400 nanometers. The protection is built into the lens material. It's not a thin surface coating that can become scratched, leaving your dilated pupils exposed to UV leaks.
Photochromic Technology
Whether you're golfing, mountain biking or pounding pavement on a training run at dawn, you can't maintain peak performance unless your eyes keep up with your environment. That's why we partnered with Transitions Optical to create lenses that darken and lighten automatically. They help you adapt to changing light conditions while filtering out 100% of ultraviolet light (UV). Not to mention the added confidence of having lenses that aren't too dark when the sun pulls a disappearing act, or too light when it knifes through the clouds.
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