See also:
| » ABCD Laser Beam Propagation Software - A Macintosh-based program for propagating Gaussian laser beams through various optical elements or calculating eigenmodes of simple resonators. |
| » Barnard Microsystems - Develops microwave and optotelectronic device and circuit design software. |
| » Beamseeker - Gaussian laser beam trace spreadsheet software program using Microsoft Excel. |
| » 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 |
| » Curve fitting software - Focus is a curve fitting software for the Windows operating system that has been developed to facilitate spectroscopic modelling and data exchange |
| » C2V - Software for simulation and design of integrated optics components. Offers full-vectorial (bend) mode solvers, beam propagation software, waveguide mask design software , thermo-optic and stress-induced birefringence simulations. |
| » 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. |
| » Femtosoft Technologies - Sells retrieval software for the measurement of femtosecond laser pulses using Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG). |
| » 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. |
| » 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. |
| » Light Scattering Analysis - Software for analysis of scattering of particles by plane waves and laser beams. A demo version is available. |
| » 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. |
| » MIE Software |
| » 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. |
| » 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 design software - ATMOS the Amateur Telescope Maker Optical design and analisys Software is a program for designing and analizing about thirty telescope configurations . Atmos is easy to use and came at a very affordable price. |
| » 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. |
| » 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 Engineering - Optical engineering and optics-related software development such as FRED (optical engineering software package). |
| » Radiant Imaging - Software and services for illumination calculations. Comprehensive radiant source model library. Product descriptions for ProSource, ProMetric and ZELUM. |
| » Sarkomand Software - Optical simulation, particle beams, and other scientific software (Macintosh). |
| » ScatLab - ScatLab is a software developed to perform electromagnetic scattering simulations mainly based on classical Mie theory solution. |
| » 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. |
| » SciSoft - Programs for investigations of single particle light scattering on base of the Mie theory and light scattering in dispersive media with high concentration of particles. |
| » 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 - a rigorous diffraction software - 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. |
| » WinLase - Software for laser resonator design and gaussian beam propagation (MS-Win, demo available). |
| » ZEMAX - Software for all aspects of optical system design. |