 Breault Research Organization, Inc. - http://www.breault.com/ Software and consulting services for the development and analysis of optical systems. |
 Diffractive Optics Design - http://diffractive.optics.free.fr/ This site presents a new powerful and versatile softaware for diffractive optics design. |
 Diffraction International - http://www.diffraction.com DURANGO interferometry software for data acquisition, analysis, evaluation and simulation. Support of many interferometer hardware. |
 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). |
 ZEMAX - http://zemax.com/ Software for all aspects of optical system design. |
 Stellar Software. - http://www.stellarsoftware.com/ Beam III, IV, optical raytracer for use by students and optical engineers. Windows and Mac versions available. |
 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. |
 Lambda Research Corporation - http://www.lambdares.com/ Their products include the TracePro software for illumination analysis featuring tutorials on using a light pipe and the OSLO optical lens design software. |
 Light Scattering Analysis - http://hhbconsult.homepage.dk Software for analysis of scattering of particles by plane waves and laser beams. A demo version is available. |
 ScatLab - http://www.scatlab.com/ ScatLab is a software developed to perform electromagnetic scattering simulations mainly based on classical Mie theory solution. |
 MIE Software - http://omlc.ogi.edu/software/mie/ MIE Software |
 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. |
 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. |
 Hesotar - 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. |
 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). |
 Barnard Microsystems - http://www.barnardmicrosystems.com Develops microwave and optotelectronic device and circuit design software. |
 OPTIS - http://www.optis.fr Optical design and analysis software. CAD software for light simulation. Products are SPEOS, SOLSTIS, OPTICALC and LIGHT. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Optics Lab - http://www.optics-lab.com Optical raytracing software for optical design and analysis. |
 MODAS - Modern Optical Design and Analysis Software - http://www.geocities.com/ivankrat/modas.html Paraxial and Seidel calculations, spot diagrams, ray fans, 3D wave aberrations and energy distribution, optical layout, optimization. (MS-Win, free crippled version available). |
 Beamseeker - http://www.geocities.com/beamseeker/ Gaussian laser beam trace spreadsheet software program using Microsoft Excel. |
 Optiwave - http://www.optiwave.com/ Software for integrated and fiber optics. |
 Femtosoft Technologies - http://www.femtosoft.biz Sells retrieval software for the measurement of femtosecond laser pulses using Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG). |
 Sinclair Optics, Inc. - http://www.sinopt.com/ OSLO optical design software. Free evaluation level OSLO LT available. |
 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. |
 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 |
 FTG Software Associates - http://www.ftgsoftware.com Software for optical thin film coating and spectrophotometer data acquisition |
 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. |
 Unigit - a rigorous diffraction software - http://www.unigit.com Vector optical diffraction solver for 2D and 3D patterned multilayer stacks and gratings based on the MMFE and the Rayleigh-Fourier Method. |
 Software Spectra - http://www.sspectra.com Software for designing and manufacturing optical multi-layer thin film coatings. Its primary product is TFCalc. |
 Radiant Imaging - http://www.radimg.com Software and services for illumination calculations. Comprehensive radiant source model library. Product descriptions for ProSource, ProMetric and ZELUM. |
 Photon Engineering - http://www.photonengr.com Optical engineering and optics-related software development such as FRED (optical engineering software package). |
 SCIOPT Enterprises - http://www.sciopt.com Software for Optical, Laser, and Integrated Optical system design. Products are PARAXIA, SIGRAPH-OPTIK, OPTEC. |
 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. |
 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. |
 TEC++ - http://www.tecplusplus.de Optical design and analysis software VOB by METEC with optimization. |
 LAS-CAD GmbH - http://www.las-cad.com/ Laser cavity design and analysis code LASCAD, including FEA and DPSSL analysis. |
 WinLase - http://www.winlase.com/ Software for laser resonator design and gaussian beam propagation (MS-Win, demo available). |
 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. |
 SciSoft - http://www.sci-soft.net/ 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. |
 Sarkomand Software - http://www.sarkomand.com/ Optical simulation, particle beams, and other scientific software (Macintosh). |
 Optical Research Associates - http://www.opticalres.com/ Optical design and illumination software. Also pages educating about optics. |
 Light Tec - http://www.lighttec.fr/ Distributor of software for optical design, illumination, straylight, integrated optics and color measurements. |
 HOLOOR - 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. |
 Universitat de Barcelona - http://www.ub.es/optmat/index.html The Optical Charactersisation Group offers software tools for the optical characterisation of thin film materials and multilayer stacks based on spectrophotometric and ellipsometric measurements. |
 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 |
 Optical Systems Design, Inc. - http://www.osdoptics.com Information and download of SYNOPSYS lens design program (SYNthesis of OPtical SYStems) evaluation copy. |
 OpTaliX - 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. |
 Curve fitting software - http://crmht.cnrs-orleans.fr/pot/software/focus.html Focus is a curve fitting software for the Windows operating system that has been developed to facilitate spectroscopic modelling and data exchange |
 MS Macrosystem - http://www.msmacrosystem.nl/ Offers 3-dimensional visualization software for laser beam topography, optical interferometry, and atomic force microscopy. |
 C2V - http://www.c2v.nl/fr_index.shtml?/products/software/olympios-software.shtml 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. |
 Optical design software - http://www.atmos-software.it/ 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. |
 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. |