Anti-Reflective Lenses

Anti-reflective coating (also called "AR coating" or "anti-glare coating") improves vision, reduces eye strain and makes your eyeglasses look more attractive.

These benefits are due to the ability of AR coating to virtually eliminate reflections from the front and back surfaces of your eyeglass lenses. With reflections gone, more light passes through your lenses to optimize visual acuity with fewer distractions (especially at night), and the lenses look nearly invisible — which enhances your appearance by drawing more attention to your eyes and helping you make better "eye contact" with others.

AR coating is especially beneficial when used on high-index lenses, which reflect more light than regular plastic lenses. Generally,  higher the index of refraction of the lens material, the more light that will be reflected from the surface of the lenses.

For example, regular plastic lenses reflect roughly 8% of light hitting the lenses, so only 92% of available light enters the eye for vision. High index plastic lenses can reflect up to 50% more light than regular plastic lenses (approximately 12% of available light),  so even less light is available to the eye for vision.

This can be particularly troublesome in low-light conditions, such as when driving at night.

Today's modern anti-reflective coatings can virtually eliminate the reflection of light from eyeglass lenses, allowing 99.5% of available light to pass through the lenses and enter the eye for good vision.

By eliminating reflections, AR coating also makes your eyeglass lenses look nearly invisible so people can see your eyes and facial expressions more clearly.

Anti-reflective glasses also are more attractive, so you can look your best in all lighting conditions.