Optotune Switzerland AG is an optical technology company founded in 2008 as a spin-off from ETH Zurich. Headquartered in Dietikon, Switzerland, the company specializes in adaptive optics and active optical components designed to manipulate and direct light without traditional mechanical translation stages.
The company maintains in-house ISO-certified cleanroom facilities, humidity- and temperature-controlled assembly zones, and automated test stations. Optotune develops and delivers dynamic optical components to international OEMs and industrial clients across medical diagnostics, machine vision, laser material processing, consumer electronics, and automotive sensing.
- Headquarters in Dietikon, Switzerland, with international subsidiaries and global distribution
- Team of over 180 employees, including more than 45 electromechanical and optical engineering specialists
- Proprietary portfolio of over 200 filed patents covering adaptive optical technologies
Optotune offers standard and application-tailored tunable optical components, drive electronics, and development services:
- Focus Tunable Lenses: Electrically and mechanically actuated polymer-membrane liquid lenses (such as the EL and ML series) providing millisecond-scale focal adjustments for machine vision, microscopy, and laser processing.
- Beam Steering Devices & Fast Steering Mirrors (FSM): Voice-coil actuated 2-axis mirrors offering large angular deflections and closed-loop positioning for LiDAR, free-space optical communication, and vision tracking.
- Tunable Prisms: Transmission-based optical beam defectors designed for dynamic line-of-sight stabilization and color dispersion management.
- Laser Speckle Reducers (LSR): Electroactive polymer-based optical diffusers that reduce speckle noise in laser projection systems and metrology setups.
- Electronics & Software: Dedicated constant-current lens drivers, controllers (such as the EL-E-4), and evaluation kits with integrated temperature-compensation algorithms.
- Engineering Services: ODM and OEM development programs covering optical ray tracing, mechanical integration, prototyping, and volume cleanroom manufacturing.
[“Manufacturing – Industrial & Machinery”, “Healthcare & Medical Services”, “Automotive”, “Manufacturing – Consumer Goods”]