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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).
Fit ;o) - Mössbauer spectroscopy fitting and analysis program written in Borland Delphi. It has a graphical user interface that allows all actions to be carried out via mouse clicks or key shortcut operations.
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 - Software for optical system design, thin-films and illumination.
OpTaliX - Comprehensive optical design and thin film analysis software. Supports 3d surface tilts, aspheres, gratings, gradient index, spline deformation, optimization, diffraction analysis, coatings.
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 - Provides a suite of photonics software including a mode solver, optical propagation tool, design and simulation tools.
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 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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