FISBA AG is a Swiss optical engineering and precision optics manufacturing company founded in 1957. Headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, the company designs, engineers, and fabricates custom optical components, micro-optics, and complete photonic subsystems for demanding industrial, life science, aerospace, and medical markets.
The company maintains comprehensive in-house facilities covering optical simulation, precision glass molding, CNC machining, thin-film deposition, automated alignment turning, and cleanroom assembly. FISBA operates international locations across Europe, North America, and Asia while conducting primary engineering and manufacturing at its Swiss headquarters.
- ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 certified manufacturing sites
- Cleanroom production featuring precision glass molding and semi-automatic micro-assembly
- Staff of over 300 specialized professionals worldwide
FISBA supplies build-to-print and fully customized optical solutions from initial optical design to volume series manufacturing:
- Micro-Optics & Lenses: Spherical and aspherical round optics down to 0.3 mm diameter, rod lenses, cylinder optics, and custom micro-lens arrays for endoscopy and surgical visualization.
- Laser Diode Collimation Optics: Fast Axis Collimators (FAC) and Slow Axis Collimators (SAC) manufactured via precision glass molding for high-power diode lasers, including pre-aligned lenses on bottom tabs.
- Illumination & Laser Modules: Multi-wavelength laser sources, such as the compact FISBA READYBeamâ„¢ and RGBeamâ„¢ platforms, integrating multiple co-aligned diode lasers for biotechnology and fluorescence microscopy.
- Micro Vision Systems: Ultracompact imaging assemblies and chip-on-tip camera assemblies engineered for minimally invasive medical instruments and robotic surgery.
- Optical Thin-Film Coatings: Custom high-transmission antireflection (AR) coatings, metallic and dielectric mirrors, beam-splitting coatings, and autoclavable medical-grade thin films.
- Engineering & Metrology Services: Optical ray tracing, tolerance budgeting, stray light analysis, mechanical CAD design, MTF testing, wavefront interferometry, and alignment turning.
[“Healthcare & Medical Services”, “Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology”, “Aerospace & Defense”, “Manufacturing – Industrial & Machinery”]