Abstract: An artificial lens (1) (contact lens or intraocular lens) for correcting presbyopia, possibly associated with other refractive defects, has at least one region (5) having a fourth-order spherical aberration in OSA notation greater than ?1.5 ?m and less than zero ?m, and possibly associated with a basic vertex power for correcting refractive defects, and with higher-order aberrations for improving vision acuity. The lens is produced by ablating a surface of a base body of the lens by means of an appropriately controlled laser device, and according to a given photoablative pattern to induce the desired aberration.