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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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ZEMAX - http://zemax.com/
Software for all aspects of optical system design. |
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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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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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Breault Research Organization, Inc. - http://www.breault.com/
Software and consulting services for the development and analysis of optical systems. |
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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. |
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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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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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Photon Engineering - http://www.photonengr.com
Optical engineering and optics-related software development such as FRED (optical engineering software package). |
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Optiwave - http://www.optiwave.com/
Software for integrated and fiber optics. |
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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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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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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). |
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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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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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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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Optical Systems Design, Inc. - http://www.osdoptics.com
Information and download of SYNOPSYS lens design program (SYNthesis of OPtical SYStems) evaluation copy. |
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WinLase - http://www.winlase.com/
Software for laser resonator design and gaussian beam propagation (MS-Win, demo available). |
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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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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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Light Tec - http://www.lighttec.fr/
Distributor of software for optical design, illumination, straylight, integrated optics and color measurements. |
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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. |
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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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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. |
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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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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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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. |
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ScatLab - http://www.scatlab.com/
ScatLab is a software developed to perform electromagnetic scattering simulations mainly based on classical Mie theory solution. |
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TEC++ - http://www.tecplusplus.de
Optical design and analysis software VOB by METEC with optimization. |
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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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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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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. |
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Beamseeker - http://www.geocities.com/beamseeker/
Gaussian laser beam trace spreadsheet software program using Microsoft Excel. |
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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. |