Optotune

Optotune designs and manufactures tunable optical components and modules that actively focus and deflect light. The range includes focus tunable lenses, tunable prisms, steering mirrors, beam shifting devices, laser speckle reducers, controllers and evaluation kits.

Its customers are OEM and ODM partners and device manufacturers. The website lists applications such as barcode scanners, microscopes, lidar, laser processing, ophthalmology, projectors and DNA sequencers, and names Cognex and Qisda among customers that provide testimonials. Optotune also offers custom OEM and ODM development, from feasibility studies to high-volume production. The website does not describe pricing or revenue model in detail.

The company was founded in 2008 by ETH Zurich graduates as an ETH spin-off. It opened its first manufacturing site outside Switzerland in Slovakia in 2017 and a sales office in Taiwan in 2019. The website reports offices in three countries, 180+ employees and in-house manufacturing. Current job listings are in Dietikon (Zurich), Trnava and for US sales roles in Texas and Colorado.

Product: Tunable lenses, tunable prisms, steering mirrors, beam shifting devices, laser speckle reducers, controllers and evaluation kits