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» ABCD Laser Beam Propagation Software - A Macintosh-based program for propagating Gaussian laser beams through various optical elements or calculating eigenmodes of simple resonators.




» ATMOS and AtmosFRINGE - Amateur telescope maker optical design and analysis software is a program for designing and analyzing telescope configurations. AtmosFRINGE is an interferogram analysis software used to extract quantitative wavefront measurements from a laser interferogram.




» Barnard Microsystems - Develops microwave and optotelectronic device and circuit design software.




» Bentec Multiplexed Hyperaspheric Optical Surfaces - Provides free download optical software (aspheric/hyperaspheric), designs and manufactures aspheric polymer optics. Non-spherical wavefront transformation lenses are designed to specification.




» Breault Research Organization, Inc. - Software and consulting services for the development and analysis of optical systems.




» Computational Optics Group (COG) - Software for computational optics and computational electromagnetics. Offers MaX-1, a general Maxwell solver, MMP is a Multiple Multipole Program, GMT solves for electrodynamic fields. Includes evolutionary optimization, genetic algorithms and evolutionary strategies




» Diffraction International - DURANGO interferometry software for data acquisition, analysis, evaluation and simulation. Support of many interferometer hardware.




» Diffractive Optics Design - This site presents a new powerful and versatile softaware for diffractive optics design.




» Electron Optical Design - Software for the design of charged particle optics devices.




» EM Explorer - A software package consisting of a number of simulation engines for rigorous EM scattering and optical imaging simulations.




» Engineering Calculations - Offers KDP-2, an optical design and analysis program. Also provides custom optical design and analysis consulting services.




» FCSEL OpenFilters - Open source software for the design, optimization, and synthesis of optical interference coatings.




» Femtosoft Technologies - Sells retrieval software for the measurement of femtosecond laser pulses using Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG).




» Focus - Curve fitting software for the Windows operating system that has been developed to facilitate spectroscopic modelling and data exchange.




» FTG Software Associates - Software for optical thin film coating and spectrophotometer data acquisition




» Grating Solver Development Company - GSOLVER is a tool for analysis of gratings with arbitrary groove profile based on full vector diffraction. Antenna Solver is a rigorous antenna analysis program




» Hesotar - Virtual Nonlinear Optics Workbook. The software enables students and scientists to perform numerical experiments in nonlinear optics. A free demo is provided.




» HOLOOR - Offers DOE-CAD, a software for design, masks generation and performance modeling of diffractive optical elements. The company also provides beam shapers and focusers, F-Theta lenses and lenslet arrays.




» Imatest - A software that uses inexpensive and widely-available test charts to measure device sharpness (MTF), perceptual sharpness (SQF) and many other parameters.




» IME Software - Provides physics educational software: RAYTRACE, for teaching geometrical optics, GASSIM is a molecular simulation program, ELF is an electric field and equipotential plotter.




» International Intellectual Group, Inc. - PC Grate is a software for calculations of diffraction efficiency of different types of relief gratings on PCs.




» Lambda Research Corporation - Their products include the TracePro software for illumination analysis featuring tutorials on using a light pipe and the OSLO optical lens design software.




» LAS-CAD GmbH - Laser cavity design and analysis code LASCAD, including FEA and DPSSL analysis.




» Laser Fourier Adaptive Method (LaserFOAM) - Simulates the propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in photonic crystal fibers using an adaptive split-step Fourier method (free, python).




» LensForge - A lens design software for Mac OS X that makes possible the simulation of ray propagation in different optical systems.




» Light Tec - Distributor of software for optical design, illumination, straylight, integrated optics and color measurements.




» Lighting Technologies - Provides software for photometric analysis and lighting design of non-imaging optical systems. Products are Photopia and Lumen Micro.




» LightTrans VirtualLab - Provides tools that allow straightforward analysis of systems, design of diffractive optical elements and beam shapers, analysis of gratings and laser resonator analysis.




» MC Grating - Software for grating analysis and design based on Chandezon, True and Fourier methods.




» MIE Software - Software for Mie scattering calculations.




» MIT Photonic-Bands - Software for computing optical band structures (dispersion relations) in periodic dielectric structures and photonic crystals (free, C source).




» MODAS - Modern Optical Design and Analysis Software - Paraxial and Seidel calculations, spot diagrams, ray fans, 3D wave aberrations and energy distribution, optical layout, optimization. (MS-Win, free crippled version available).




» MS Macrosystem - Offers 3-dimensional visualization software for laser beam topography, optical interferometry, and atomic force microscopy.




» Multilayer Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis (MRCWA) - A fast, flexible optical grating solver. It calculates an exact solution using Maxwell's equations for the diffraction of light from an optical grating defined by the user through a set of intuitive python bindings.




» NaturalGrafiX: ImageIron - A high precision software used for automatic capture and removal of lens aberrations (such as distortion and vignetting) of high-end digital cameras.




» OpTaliX - Comprehensive optical design and thin film analysis software. Supports 3d surface tilts, aspheres, gratings, gradient index, spline deformation, optimization, diffraction analysis, coatings.




» Optalix - Software for optical system design, thin-films and illumination.




» Optical Data Solutions, Inc. - Offers LensVIEW, a CD-ROM database of lens design examples found in the optical design literature, mainly from patents. Includes more than 30000 individual designs.




» Optical Research Associates - Optical design and illumination software. Also pages educating about optics.




» Optical Systems Design, Inc. - Information and download of SYNOPSYS lens design program (SYNthesis of OPtical SYStems) evaluation copy.




» OpticalSoftware - Different optical software packages. Lens designer, ray tracker and custom material creator.




» Optics Lab - Optical raytracing software for optical design and analysis.




» Optics Lab Optical Ray Tracing Software - Program helps use evaluate optical systems for performance standards. Page includes list of specifications, free demo and pricing information.




» Optima-Research - Supplies equipment and software for scientists and engineers. Also provides training in computer-based optical design and modelling.




» OPTIS - Optical design and analysis software. CAD software for light simulation. Products are SPEOS, SOLSTIS, OPTICALC and LIGHT.




» Optiwave - Software for integrated and fiber optics.




» OXALIS-LASER - 3D coherent beam propagation and Gaussian beam propagation software along optical systems and laser cavities, including diffraction, gain saturation, thermal lensing and others physical effects. Products are SimCa and COMMOD.




» Photon Design - Software tools for integrated optics, fibre optics, diode laser, TWA and diffractive optics modelling. Products include FIMMWAVE, FIMMPROP-3D and CLADISS-2D.




» Photon Design - Provides a suite of photonics software including a mode solver, optical propagation tool, design and simulation tools.




» Photon Engineering - Optical engineering and optics-related software development such as FRED (optical engineering software package).




» Quick MTF - This software is designed for assessment and comparison of the major lens quality components. It measures resolution and chromatic aberration.




» Radiant Imaging - Software and services for illumination calculations. Comprehensive radiant source model library. Product descriptions for ProSource, ProMetric and ZELUM.




» RSoft Design Group, Inc. - Photonics design automation software. Offers a range of photonic and network design automation products including a component design suite, the simulation of single mode and multimode optical communication systems and a network modeling package.




» Sarkomand Software - Optical simulation, particle beams, and other scientific software (Macintosh).




» Scientific Computing International SCI - Software for optical thin film design, characterization and metrology systems. Current products include: Film Wizard, Film Spectrum and Film Ellipse.




» SCIOPT Enterprises - Software for Optical, Laser, and Integrated Optical system design. Products are PARAXIA, SIGRAPH-OPTIK, OPTEC.




» Semiconsoft - Thin Film Optical Metrology Software (Ellipsometry, Reflectance, Transmittance) for research and development and production. The main product is TFCompanion, a software application for thin film analysis and metrology. Includes analytical tools for interpretation of measurement data. Available for all operating systems with JVM support (Windows, Apple, Unix).




» Sinclair Optics, Inc. - OSLO optical design software. Free evaluation level OSLO LT available.




» Sky Scientific Optical Design and Astronomy - Offers optical design software for engineering professionals, students and educators. Products for astronomy and astrophotography.




» Software Spectra - Software for designing and manufacturing optical multi-layer thin film coatings. Its primary product is TFCalc.




» Stellar Software. - Beam III, IV, optical raytracer for use by students and optical engineers. Windows and Mac versions available.




» TEC++ - Optical design and analysis software VOB by METEC with optimization.




» Thin Film Center, Inc. - Offers optical thin film design and analysis software and product descriptions for Essential Macleod. Training services and consulting for the coating industry.




» UNIGIT - Vector optical diffraction solver for 2D and 3D patterned multilayer stacks and gratings based on the MMFE and the Rayleigh-Fourier Method.




» Universitat de Barcelona - The Optical Charactersisation Group offers software tools for the optical characterisation of thin film materials and multilayer stacks based on spectrophotometric and ellipsometric measurements.




» Wavelab Scientific Ptd., Ltd - Provider of ZEMAX optical design software, ZEMAX training courses, tfcalc thin film design software and laser cavity design software.




» WaveSim - FRESNEL, software that simulates laser beam propagation through various optical schemes.




» WinLase - Software for laser resonator design and gaussian beam propagation (MS-Win, demo available).




» ZEMAX - Software for all aspects of optical system design.

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