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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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RSOFT Design Group, Inc - http://www.rsoftdesign.com
Optical communication software that allows users to design and simulate current and next generation communication systems at the signal propagation, network architecture, and packet level. |
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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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http://www.optis.fr - http://www.optis.fr
Optical design and analysis software. CAD software for light simulation. Products are SPEOS, SOLSTIS, OPTICALC and LIGHT. |
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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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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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Sinclair Optics, Inc. - http://www.sinopt.com/
OSLO optical design software. Free evaluation level OSLO LT available. |
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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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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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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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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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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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FTG Software Associates - http://www.ftgsoftware.com
Software for optical thin film coating and spectrophotometer data acquisition |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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http://www.c2v.nl/fr_index.shtml?/products/software/olympios-software.shtml - 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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http://www.unigit.com - 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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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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Sarkomand Software - http://www.sarkomand.com/
Optical simulation, particle beams, and other scientific software (Macintosh). |
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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. |
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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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Beamseeker - http://www.geocities.com/beamseeker/
Gaussian laser beam trace spreadsheet software program using Microsoft Excel. |
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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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EM Explorer - http://www.emexplorer.net
A software package consisting of a number of simulation engines for rigorous EM scattering and optical imaging simulations. |
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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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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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http://wavesimsoft.ru - http://wavesimsoft.ru
FRESNEL, software that simulates laser beam propagation through various optical schemes. |
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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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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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Quick MTF - http://www.quickmtf.com
This software is designed for assessment and comparison of the major lens quality components. It measures resolution and chromatic aberration. |
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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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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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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. |