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RSoft Design Group, Inc. - http://www.rsoftdesign.com
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. |
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Photon Engineering - http://www.photonengr.com
Optical engineering and optics-related software development such as FRED (optical engineering software package). |
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MIT Photonic-Bands - http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/
Software for computing optical band structures (dispersion relations) in periodic dielectric structures and photonic crystals (free, C source). |
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Computational Optics Group (COG) - http://alphard.ethz.ch
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 |
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Optical Research Associates - http://www.opticalres.com/
Optical design and illumination software. Also pages educating about optics. |
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Photon Design - http://www.photond.com
Software tools for integrated optics, fibre optics, diode laser, TWA and diffractive optics modelling. Products include FIMMWAVE, FIMMPROP-3D and CLADISS-2D. |
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Photon Design - http://www.photondesign.com/
Provides a suite of photonics software including a mode solver, optical propagation tool, design and simulation tools. |
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http://www.imatest.com - http://www.imatest.com
A software that uses inexpensive and widely-available test charts to measure device sharpness (MTF), perceptual sharpness (SQF) and many other parameters. |
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Thin Film Center, Inc. - http://www.thinfilmcenter.com
Offers optical thin film design and analysis software and product descriptions for Essential Macleod. Training services and consulting for the coating industry. |
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Sinclair Optics, Inc. - http://www.sinopt.com/
OSLO optical design software. Free evaluation level OSLO LT available. |
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LightTrans VirtualLab - http://www.lighttrans.com/
Provides tools that allow straightforward analysis of systems, design of diffractive optical elements and beam shapers, analysis of gratings and laser resonator analysis. |
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International Intellectual Group, Inc. - http://www.pcgrate.com/
PC Grate is a software for calculations of diffraction efficiency of different types of relief gratings on PCs. |
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Bentec Multiplexed Hyperaspheric Optical Surfaces - http://www.bentecservices.com/
Provides free download optical software (aspheric/hyperaspheric), designs and manufactures aspheric polymer optics. Non-spherical wavefront transformation lenses are designed to specification. |
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MS Macrosystem - http://www.msmacrosystem.nl/
Offers 3-dimensional visualization software for laser beam topography, optical interferometry, and atomic force microscopy. |
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Software Spectra - http://www.sspectra.com
Software for designing and manufacturing optical multi-layer thin film coatings. Its primary product is TFCalc. |
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Light Tec - http://www.lighttec.fr/
Distributor of software for optical design, illumination, straylight, integrated optics and color measurements. |
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Radiant Imaging - http://www.radimg.com
Software and services for illumination calculations. Comprehensive radiant source model library. Product descriptions for ProSource, ProMetric and ZELUM. |
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Wavelab Scientific Ptd., Ltd - http://www.wavelab-sci.com
Provider of ZEMAX optical design software, ZEMAX training courses, tfcalc thin film design software and laser cavity design software. |
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MIE Software - http://omlc.ogi.edu/software/mie/
Software for Mie scattering calculations. |
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Lighting Technologies - http://www.lighting-technologies.com
Provides software for photometric analysis and lighting design of non-imaging optical systems. Products are Photopia and Lumen Micro. |
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LAS-CAD GmbH - http://www.las-cad.com/
Laser cavity design and analysis code LASCAD, including FEA and DPSSL analysis. |
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Stellar Software. - http://www.stellarsoftware.com/
Beam III, IV, optical raytracer for use by students and optical engineers. Windows and Mac versions available. |
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IME Software - http://members.ozemail.com.au/~imesoft/
Provides physics educational software: RAYTRACE, for teaching geometrical optics, GASSIM is a molecular simulation program, ELF is an electric field and equipotential plotter. |
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ABCD Laser Beam Propagation Software - http://www.novajo.ca/abcd/index.html
A Macintosh-based program for propagating Gaussian laser beams through various optical elements or calculating eigenmodes of simple resonators. |
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Femtosoft Technologies - http://www.femtosoft.biz
Sells retrieval software for the measurement of femtosecond laser pulses using Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG). |
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FTG Software Associates - http://www.ftgsoftware.com
Software for optical thin film coating and spectrophotometer data acquisition |
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Laser Fourier Adaptive Method (LaserFOAM) - http://laserfoam.sourceforge.net/
Simulates the propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in photonic crystal fibers using an adaptive split-step Fourier method (free, python). |
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Grating Solver Development Company - http://www.gsolver.com
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 |
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Optima-Research - http://www.optima-research.com/
Supplies equipment and software for scientists and engineers. Also provides training in computer-based optical design and modelling. |
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SCIOPT Enterprises - http://www.sciopt.com
Software for Optical, Laser, and Integrated Optical system design. Products are PARAXIA, SIGRAPH-OPTIK, OPTEC. |
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Scientific Computing International SCI - http://www.sci-soft.com
Software for optical thin film design, characterization and metrology systems. Current products include: Film Wizard, Film Spectrum and Film Ellipse. |
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NaturalGrafiX: ImageIron - http://www.naturalgrafix.com
A high precision software used for automatic capture and removal of lens aberrations (such as distortion and vignetting) of high-end digital cameras. |
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http://www.holoor.co.il - http://www.holoor.co.il
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. |
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http://www.optenso.de - http://www.optenso.de
Comprehensive optical design and thin film analysis software. Supports 3d surface tilts, aspheres, gratings, gradient index, spline deformation, optimization, diffraction analysis, coatings. |
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http://www.optenso.com/ - http://www.optenso.com/
Software for optical system design, thin-films and illumination. |
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OXALIS-LASER - http://www.oxalis-laser.com
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. |
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Engineering Calculations - http://www.ecalculations.com
Offers KDP-2, an optical design and analysis program. Also provides custom optical design and analysis consulting services. |
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Optics Lab - http://www.optics-lab.com
Optical raytracing software for optical design and analysis. |
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http://www.tecplusplus.de - http://www.tecplusplus.de
Optical design and analysis software VOB by METEC with optimization. |
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Sky Scientific Optical Design and Astronomy - http://www.skyscientific.com/
Offers optical design software for engineering professionals, students and educators. Products for astronomy and astrophotography. |
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Optics Lab Optical Ray Tracing Software - http://www.science-lab.com/
Program helps use evaluate optical systems for performance standards. Page includes list of specifications, free demo and pricing information. |
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Diffraction International - http://www.diffraction.com
DURANGO interferometry software for data acquisition, analysis, evaluation and simulation. Support of many interferometer hardware. |
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LensForge - http://www.ripplon.com/LensForge/
A lens design software for Mac OS X that makes possible the simulation of ray propagation in different optical systems. |
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FCSEL OpenFilters - http://www.polymtl.ca/larfis/English_Version/OF/OF_English.htm
Open source software for the design, optimization, and synthesis of optical interference coatings. |
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ATMOS and AtmosFRINGE - http://www.atmos-software.it/
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. |
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http://crmht.cnrs-orleans.fr/pot/software/focus.html - http://crmht.cnrs-orleans.fr/pot/software/focus.html
Curve fitting software for the Windows operating system that has been developed to facilitate spectroscopic modelling and data exchange. |
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Multilayer Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis (MRCWA) - http://mrcwa.sourceforge.net
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. |
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Semiconsoft - http://www.semiconsoft.com/
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). |
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MC Grating - http://www.mcgrating.com
Software for grating analysis and design based on Chandezon, True and Fourier methods. |
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Barnard Microsystems - http://www.barnardmicrosystems.com
Develops microwave and optotelectronic device and circuit design software. |
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MODAS - Modern Optical Design and Analysis Software - http://members.kabsi.at/i.krastev/modas/
Paraxial and Seidel calculations, spot diagrams, ray fans, 3D wave aberrations and energy distribution, optical layout, optimization. (MS-Win, free crippled version available). |
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Optical Data Solutions, Inc. - http://www.ods-inc.com
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. |
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Sarkomand Software - http://www.sarkomand.com/
Optical simulation, particle beams, and other scientific software (Macintosh). |
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http://www.hesotar.com - http://www.hesotar.com
Virtual Nonlinear Optics Workbook. The software enables students and scientists to perform numerical experiments in nonlinear optics. A free demo is provided. |
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Diffractive Optics Design - http://diffractive.optics.free.fr/
This site presents a new powerful and versatile softaware for diffractive optics design. |