POWER OF ATTORNEY

                        OF OFFICERS AND/OR DIRECTORS OF

                            STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY

          The undersigned officer and/or director of STAAR Surgical Company, a
Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), which anticipates filing, with respect
to its fiscal year ending January 2, 1998, an Integrated Annual Report on Form
10-K ("Report") with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C.,
hereby constitutes and appoints John R. Wolf and William Huddleston and each of
them, severally, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, as
attorneys or attorney to sign for the undersigned in any and all capacities such
Report, and any and all applications or other documents to be filed pertaining
to such Report with the Securities and Exchange Commission and with full power
and authority to do and perform any and all acts and things whatsoever required
and necessary to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned could do if personally present.  The undersigned hereby
ratifies and confirms all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of
their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

            EXECUTED this 27th day of March, 1998.

 
                                                /s/ Donald R. Sanders, M.D.
                                                ------------------------------- 
                                                Donald R. Sanders, M.D.

 
                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

                         OFFICERS AND/OR DIRECTORS OF

                            STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY

          The undersigned officer and/or director of STAAR Surgical Company, a
Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), which anticipates filing, with respect
to its fiscal year ending January 2, 1998, an Integrated Annual Report on Form
10-K ("Report") with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C.,
hereby constitutes and appoints John R. Wolf and William Huddleston and each of
them, severally, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, as
attorneys or attorney to sign for the undersigned in any and all capacities such
Report, and any and all applications or other documents to be filed pertaining
to such Report with the Securities and Exchange Commission and with full power
and authority to do and perform any and all acts and things whatsoever required
and necessary to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned could do if personally present.  The undersigned hereby
ratifies and confirms all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of
their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

            EXECUTED this 27th day of March, 1998.

 
                                                     /s/ John R. Wolf
                                                     -------------------------
                                                     John R. Wolf

 
                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

                         OFFICERS AND/OR DIRECTORS OF

                            STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY


          The undersigned officer and/or director of STAAR Surgical Company, a
Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), which anticipates filing, with respect
to its fiscal year ending January 2, 1998, an Integrated Annual Report on Form
10-K ("Report") with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C.,
hereby constitutes and appoints John R. Wolf and William Huddleston and each of
them, severally, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, as
attorneys or attorney to sign for the undersigned in any and all capacities such
Report, and any and all applications or other documents to be filed pertaining
to such Report with the Securities and Exchange Commission and with full power
and authority to do and perform any and all acts and things whatsoever required
and necessary to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned could do if personally present.  The undersigned hereby
ratifies and confirms all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of
their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

            EXECUTED this 27th day of March, 1998.

 
                                                   /s/ Michael R. Deitz, M.D.
                                                   ----------------------------
                                                   Michael R. Deitz, M.D.   

 
                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

                         OFFICERS AND/OR DIRECTORS OF

                            STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY


          The undersigned officer and/or director of STAAR Surgical Company, a
Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), which anticipates filing, with respect
to its fiscal year ending January 2, 1998, an Integrated Annual Report on Form
10-K ("Report") with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C.,
hereby constitutes and appoints John R. Wolf and William Huddleston and each of
them, severally, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, as
attorneys or attorney to sign for the undersigned in any and all capacities such
Report, and any and all applications or other documents to be filed pertaining
to such Report with the Securities and Exchange Commission and with full power
and authority to do and perform any and all acts and things whatsoever required
and necessary to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned could do if personally present.  The undersigned hereby
ratifies and confirms all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of
their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

            EXECUTED this 27th day of March, 1998.

 
                                                    /s/ Andrew F. Pollet
                                                    ---------------------------
                                                    Andrew F. Pollet  

 
                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

                         OFFICERS AND/OR DIRECTORS OF

                            STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY


          The undersigned officer and/or director of STAAR Surgical Company, a
Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), which anticipates filing, with respect
to its fiscal year ending January 2, 1998, an Integrated Annual Report on Form
10-K ("Report") with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C.,
hereby constitutes and appoints John R. Wolf and William Huddleston and each of
them, severally, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, as
attorneys or attorney to sign for the undersigned in any and all capacities such
Report, and any and all applications or other documents to be filed pertaining
to such Report with the Securities and Exchange Commission and with full power
and authority to do and perform any and all acts and things whatsoever required
and necessary to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned could do if personally present.  The undersigned hereby
ratifies and confirms all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of
their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

            EXECUTED 27th day of March, 1998.

 
                                                   /s/ Peter J. Utrata, M.D.
                                                   ---------------------------
                                                   Peter J. Utrata, M.D.

 
                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

                         OFFICERS AND/OR DIRECTORS OF

                            STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY


          The undersigned officer and/or director of STAAR Surgical Company, a
Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), which anticipates filing, with respect
to its fiscal year ending January 2, 1998, an Integrated Annual Report on Form
10-K ("Report") with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C.,
hereby constitutes and appoints John R. Wolf and William Huddleston and each of
them, severally, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, as
attorneys or attorney to sign for the undersigned in any and all capacities such
Report, and any and all applications or other documents to be filed pertaining
to such Report with the Securities and Exchange Commission and with full power
and authority to do and perform any and all acts and things whatsoever required
and necessary to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned could do if personally present.  The undersigned hereby
ratifies and confirms all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of
their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

            EXECUTED this 27th  day of March, 1998.

 
                                                  /s/ William C. Huddleston
                                                  ---------------------------- 
                                                  William C. Huddleston