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Article History

Received: 25 July 2025

Revised: 10 October 2025

Accepted: 18 October 2025

First Online: 8 November 2025

Declarations

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: This article does not contain any studies with human participants performed by any of the authors.

: The University of Heidelberg holds a patent application (No. EP22187235) entitled “Lens with extended depth of focus by inducing an excess of longitudinal chromatic aberration”, with G.U. Auffarth and G. Łabuz as inventors. G.U. Auffarth reports grants, personal fees, nonfinancial support and consulting fees from Alcon, Johnson & Johnson, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Rayner and SIFI, grants, personal fees, and nonfinancial support from Hoya, Kowa, Teleon and Santen, grants, personal fees and consulting fees from Cristalens and VSY, grants and personal fees from Bausch + Lomb, Biotech and Oculus, personal fees from Eyebright, grants from Contamac, Croma, Hanita, Ophtec and Physiol, outside the submitted work. R. Khoramnia reports grants, personal fees and nonfinancial support from Alcon and Teleon; grants, personal fees and nonfinancial support from Hoya and Johnson&Johnson, grants and personal fees from Bausch + Lomb, personal fees and nonfinancial support from Carl Zeiss Meditec and Ophtec, personal fees from Heidelberg Engineering, Oculus and Rayner, outside the submitted work. G. Łabuz reports nonfinancial support from Contamac outside the submitted work. T. Naujokaitis reports nonfinancial support from Cristalens, outside the submitted work. Z. Wu and F. Cuéllar disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.