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.
Sinclair Optics, Inc. OSLO optical design software. Free evaluation level OSLO LT available.
Sarkomand Software Optical simulation, particle beams, and other scientific software (Macintosh).
MIT Photonic-Bands Software for computing optical band structures (dispersion relations) in periodic dielectric structures and photonic crystals (free, C source).
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.
Sky Scientific Optical Design and Astronomy Offers optical design software for engineering professionals, students and educators. Products for astronomy and astrophotography.
Optima-Research Supplies equipment and software for scientists and engineers. Also provides training in computer-based optical design and modelling.
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.
Radiant Imaging Software and services for illumination calculations. Comprehensive radiant source model library. Product descriptions for ProSource, ProMetric and ZELUM.
FTG Software Associates Software for optical thin film coating and spectrophotometer data acquisition
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.
Lighting Technologies Provides software for photometric analysis and lighting design of non-imaging optical systems. Products are Photopia and Lumen Micro.
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).
Optics Lab Optical raytracing software for optical design and analysis.
OPTIS Optical design and analysis software. CAD software for light simulation. Products are SPEOS, SOLSTIS, OPTICALC and LIGHT.
Light Tec Distributor of software for optical design, illumination, straylight, integrated optics and color measurements.
Scientific Computing International SCI Software for optical thin film design, characterization and metrology systems. Current products include: Film Wizard, Film Spectrum and Film Ellipse.
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
Light Scattering Analysis Software for analysis of scattering of particles by plane waves and laser beams. A demo version is available.
Photon Design Software tools for integrated optics, fibre optics, diode laser, TWA and diffractive optics modelling. Products include FIMMWAVE, FIMMPROP-3D and CLADISS-2D.
SCIOPT Enterprises Software for Optical, Laser, and Integrated Optical system design. Products are PARAXIA, SIGRAPH-OPTIK, OPTEC.
Stellar Software. Beam III, IV, optical raytracer for use by students and optical engineers. Windows and Mac versions available.
Optiwave Software for integrated and fiber optics.
Barnard Microsystems Develops microwave and optotelectronic device and circuit design software.
Photon Engineering Optical engineering and optics-related software development such as FRED (optical engineering software package).
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.
Beamseeker Gaussian laser beam trace spreadsheet software program using Microsoft Excel.
Femtosoft Technologies Sells retrieval software for the measurement of femtosecond laser pulses using Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG).
Photodigm Inc. WAVEGUIDE, Optical slab waveguide modeling software.
LAS-CAD GmbH Laser cavity design and analysis code LASCAD, including FEA and DPSSL analysis.
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
Hesotar Virtual Nonlinear Optics Workbook. The software enables students and scientists to perform numerical experiments in nonlinear optics. A free demo is provided.
Software Spectra Software for designing and manufacturing optical multi-layer thin film coatings. Its primary product is TFCalc.
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).
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.
Diffraction International DURANGO interferometry software for data acquisition, analysis, evaluation and simulation. Support of many interferometer hardware.
OpTaliX Comprehensive optical design and thin film analysis software. Supports 3d surface tilts, aspheres, gratings, gradient index, spline deformation, optimization, diffraction analysis, coatings.
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.
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.
ScatLab ScatLab is a software developed to perform electromagnetic scattering simulations mainly based on classical Mie theory solution.
Diffractive Optics Design This site presents a new powerful and versatile softaware for diffractive optics design.
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
MS Macrosystem Offers 3-dimensional visualization software for laser beam topography, optical interferometry, and atomic force microscopy.
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.
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.
ABCD Laser Beam Propagation Software A Macintosh-based program for propagating Gaussian laser beams through various optical elements or calculating eigenmodes of simple resonators.
Zemax Offers optical engineering software and product descriptions for ZEMAX, OptiCAD, ZELUM, and LensVIEW.
FreeBPM A free software for designing and simulating integrated optical elements using 2D beam propagation methods.
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.
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.
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.
Optical Systems Design, Inc. Information and download of SYNOPSYS lens design program (SYNthesis of OPtical SYStems) evaluation copy.
