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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.

• Barnard Microsystems

  http://www.barnardmicrosystems.com/
  Develops microwave and optotelectronic device and circuit design software.

• 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.

• Breault Research Organization, Inc.

  http://www.breault.com/
  Software and consulting services for the development and analysis of optical systems.

• 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

• Diffraction International

  http://www.diffraction.com/
  DURANGO interferometry software for data acquisition, analysis, evaluation and simulation. Support of many interferometer hardware.

• Electron Optical Design

  http://www.lencova.com/
  Software for the design of charged particle optics devices.

• EM Explorer

  http://www.emexplorer.net/
  A software package consisting of a number of simulation engines for rigorous EM scattering and optical imaging simulations.

• Engineering Calculations

  http://www.ecalculations.com/
  Offers KDP-2, an optical design and analysis program. Also provides custom optical design and analysis consulting services.

• Fit ;o)

  http://www.hjollum.com/jari/zzbug/fit
  Mössbauer spectroscopy fitting and analysis program written in Borland Delphi. It has a graphical user interface that allows all actions to be carried out via mouse clicks or key shortcut operations.

• FTG Software Associates

  http://www.ftgsoftware.com/
  Software for optical thin film coating and spectrophotometer data acquisition

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• Imatest

  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.

• 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.

• 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.

• LAS-CAD GmbH

  http://www.las-cad.com/
  Laser cavity design and analysis code LASCAD, including FEA and DPSSL analysis.

• Laser Fourier Adaptive Method (LaserFOAM)

  http://laserfoam.sourceforge.net/
  Simulates the propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in photonic crystal fibers using an adaptive split-step Fourier method (free, python).

• 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.

• Light Tec

  http://www.lighttec.fr/
  Distributor of software for optical design, illumination, straylight, integrated optics and color measurements.

• 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.

• LTI Optics, LLC

  http://www.ltioptics.com/
  Provides software for photometric analysis and lighting design of non-imaging optical systems. Products are Photopia and Lumen Micro.

• MC Grating

  http://www.mcgrating.com/
  Software for grating analysis and design based on Chandezon, True and Fourier methods.

• MIE Software

  http://omlc.ogi.edu/software/mie/
  Software for Mie scattering calculations.

• MIT Photonic-Bands

  http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/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

  http://www.myoptics.at/modas/
  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

  http://www.msmacrosystem.nl/
  Offers 3-dimensional visualization software for laser beam topography, optical interferometry, and atomic force microscopy.

• 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.

• 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.

• OpTaliX

  http://www.optenso.com/
  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.

  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.

• Optical Research Associates

  http://www.opticalres.com/
  Optical design and illumination software. Also pages educating about optics.

• Optical Systems Design, Inc.

  http://www.osdoptics.com/
  Information and download of SYNOPSYS lens design program (SYNthesis of OPtical SYStems) evaluation copy.

• OpticalSoftware

  http://www.opticalsoftware.net/
  Different optical software packages. Lens designer, ray tracker and custom material creator.

• Optics Lab

  http://www.optics-lab.com/
  Optical raytracing software for optical design and analysis.

• OPTIS

  http://www.optis-world.com/
  Optical design and analysis software. CAD software for light simulation. Products are SPEOS, SOLSTIS, OPTICALC and LIGHT.

• Optiwave

  http://optiwave.com/
  Software for integrated and fiber optics.

• 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.

• Photon Design

  http://www.photond.com/
  Provides a suite of photonics software including a mode solver, optical propagation tool, design and simulation tools.

• Photon Engineering

  http://www.photonengr.com/
  Optical engineering and optics-related software development such as FRED (optical engineering software package).

• 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.

• Radiant Zemax, LLC

  http://radiantzemax.com/
  Software for all aspects of optical system design.

• RSoft Design Group, Inc.

  http://www.rsoftdesign.com/
  Photonics design automation software. Offers a range of photonic and network design automation products including a component design suite, the simulation of single mode and multimode optical communication systems and a network modeling package.

• Science Lab 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.

• 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.

• SCIOPT Enterprises

  http://www.sciopt.com/
  Software for Optical, Laser, and Integrated Optical system design. Products are PARAXIA, SIGRAPH-OPTIK, OPTEC.

• 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).

• Sinclair Optics, Inc.

  http://www.sinopt.com/
  OSLO optical design software. Free evaluation level OSLO LT available.

• 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.

• Software Spectra

  http://www.sspectra.com/
  Software for designing and manufacturing optical multi-layer thin film coatings. Its primary product is TFCalc.

• Stellar Software.

  http://www.stellarsoftware.com/
  Beam III, IV, optical raytracer for use by students and optical engineers. Windows and Mac versions available.

• TEC++

  http://www.tecplusplus.de/
  Optical design and analysis software VOB by METEC with optimization.

• 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.

• Universitat de Barcelona

  http://www.ub.edu/optmat/
  The Optical Characterization Group offers software tools for the optical characterisation of thin film materials and multilayer stacks based on spectrophotometric and ellipsometric measurements.

• WaveSim

  http://wavesimsoft.ru/
  FRESNEL, software that simulates laser beam propagation through various optical schemes.

• WinLase

  http://www.winlase.com/
  Software for laser resonator design and gaussian beam propagation (MS-Win, demo available).

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