POWER OF ATTORNEY

      Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints each of Deborah Andrews and Charles
Kaufman, signing singly, as the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to do any or all of the following:

(a)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the
undersigned's capacity as an officer or director of
STAAR Surgical Company (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4 and
5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(b)	execute and submit for and on behalf of the
undersigned a Form ID of the Securities and Exchange
Commission to obtain personal code numbers for the
mandatory electronic filing of reports;

(c)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of
the undersigned that may be necessary or desirable to
complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 or Form
ID, complete and execute any amendment or amendments
thereto, and file such form with the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock
exchange or similar authority; and

(d)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in
connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of
the attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the
interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned,
it being understood that the documents executed by
such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned
pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such
form and shall contain such terms and conditions as
such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-
fact's discretion.

      The undersigned hereby grants to each attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and perform any and every act and
thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in
the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as
fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution
or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such
attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or
substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of
this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.
The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-
fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any
of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

      This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and
effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms
3, 4 and 5 (or such forms as may in the future be substituted
therefore under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act) with
respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in
securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the
undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact.

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power
of Attorney to be executed as of this 11th day of March, 2010.

                  /s/Hans-Martin Blickensdoerfer
                  _______________________________
                             Signature
                  Han-Martin Blickensdoerfer