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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.

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 strategie.

Curve fitting software - - Focus is a curve fitting software for the Windows operating system that has been developed to facilitate spectroscopic modelling and data exchang.

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).

FreeBPM - - A free software for designing and simulating integrated optical elements using 2D beam propagation methods.

FTG Software Associates - - Software for optical thin film coating and spectrophotometer data acquisitio.

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 progra.

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.

  Optikwerk - - Design and simulation software of optics and complex laser systems. Offered packages are OPTIKWERKS and LASERWERKS.

  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.

  Photodigm Inc. - - WAVEGUIDE, Optical slab waveguide modeling software.

  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.

  Schneider Optics - - GAUSSOPT-ik, Software for analysis of first order imaging properties of lenses.

  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 R&D 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.

  WaveSim - - Software for simulation and analysis of laser beam propagation such as FRESNEL.

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

  Zemax - - Offers optical engineering software and product descriptions for ZEMAX, OptiCAD, ZELUM, and LensVIEW.