Younger Optics has engineered an everyday lens to address visual problems caused by LED light.
Every white LED light source – from overhead office lighting and screens, to car headlights and sport arena floodlights – concentrates intensity at two specific emission peaks: 450 nm and 590 nm. These narrow wavelengths are disproportionately responsible for the glare, eye strain, and visual fatigue patients experience across their daily lives.
According to Younger Optics, LED Pro, as the world’s first patented ophthalmic lens engineered specifically for LED light environments, changes that.
LED Pro uses advanced selective absorption dye technology to target the two most disruptive peaks – 450 nm and 590 nm – while allowing surrounding wavelengths to pass through largely intact.
The result is reduced glare, sharper vision, improved contrast sensitivity, and natural colour perception in LED lit environments. LED Pro provides greater visual comfort across every LED lit environment. It also selectively absorbs potentially harmful blue light and blocks 100% of UV rays for everyday eye protection.
Unlike broad spectrum blue light blocking lenses that can dim brightness, distort colour, and reduce contrast, LED Pro’s selective approach preserves natural brightness, true colour, and sharp contrast without those visual tradeoffs. The outcome is an everyday lens that performs across all LED lit environments without compromising vision quality.
The selective absorption dyes give LED Pro a subtle green hue, which with an anti-reflective coating achieves nearly 90% light transmission. LED Pro is a Category 0 lens that can be prescribed as a primary pair in place of clear lenses, and is suitable for everyday tasks, including driving by day or night. The subtle hue is imperceptible to most wearers.
“LED light is everywhere, but until now no ophthalmic lens had ever been engineered to address LED light’s effects on vision,” said Brandon Young, ANZ Sales and Marketing Manager at Younger Optics. “The wearer stories we are hearing about LED Pro are striking – people whose screen fatigue lifted, people who had given up driving after dark but have found their confidence behind the wheel again. It has been transformative for them.”
LED Headlight Research
Car LED headlights make night driving harder for drivers everywhere. A comprehensive study found that 97% of drivers report being dazzled by oncoming headlights, and approximately 55% had stopped or reduced their night driving as a result.¹ A UK study found that dazzling headlights contributed to an average of 280 road collisions and six fatalities every year.²
The problem falls hardest on drivers aged 40 and over. A 17-year-old recovers from glare in around one second, while an older driver may take up to nine seconds³ – equating to 150 m of road covered at 60 km/h without clear sight.
“We did not set out to make a night driving lens. We set out to make a lens for an LED lit world – and the driving research is simply the most compelling proof that such a lens was needed,” said Mr Young.
“The same LED peaks causing problems on the road are present in virtually every environment patients move through: at work, at home, on the sporting field and in arenas. That is what LED Pro was designed for,” he added.
The Patient Opportunity
A preliminary wearer study comparing LED Pro against a standard clear lens found a statistically highly significant 16% reduction in glare recovery time (p<0.001), with 100% of participants noticing reduced glare recovery and rating LED ProO as ‘Very Good’ or ‘Excellent’ for glare and reflection reduction, vision in artificial light, and low light vision.⁴
“What we hear from eye care professionals is that patients are describing discomfort – from screens, from overhead lighting, from driving at night – but they are not often connecting this discomfort to LED light,” said Mr Young. “LED Pro gives eye care professionals a lens that addresses something patients are already experiencing, in a way nothing else currently does.”
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References
- Transport Research Laboratory/Department for Transport, Glare from Vehicle Lighting on UK Roads, PPR2069, October 2025. Available at trl.co.uk/uploads/trl/documents/PPR2069-Glare-from-road-vehicle-lighting.pdf [accessed Jun 2026].
- UK Royal Automobile Club, A Glaring Problem, January 2024. Available at rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/rac-calls-for-government-action-on-headlight-glare/?__cf_chl_f_tk=xJf4NV9vlZCgzktnTdQQNu9vDcE1lqs0aXSsDBFBYFM-1782791150-1.0.1.1-wZ0yTEdFa.k_SineA4RwrozZKdWWctR_n4F_LWyQhdw [accessed Jun 2026].
- BBC News, October 2025, citing road safety consultant Rob Heard. Available at bbc.com/news/articles/cn971jlpvvro [accessed Jun 2026].
- IOT, Green Filter Clinical Study Results, internal report, 26 March 2025. Unpublished internal study commissioned by Younger Optics.
