Open Directory - Science: Physics: Optics: Software
See also: - A Macintosh-based program for propagating Gaussian laser beams through various optical elements or calculating eigenmodes of simple resonators. - 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. - Develops microwave and optotelectronic device and circuit design software. - Provides free download optical software (aspheric/hyperaspheric), designs and manufactures aspheric polymer optics. Non-spherical wavefront transformation lenses are designed to specification. - Software and consulting services for the development and analysis of optical systems. - 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 - DURANGO interferometry software for data acquisition, analysis, evaluation and simulation. Support of many interferometer hardware. - A software package consisting of a number of simulation engines for rigorous EM scattering and optical imaging simulations. - Software for the design of charged particle optics devices. - Offers KDP-2, an optical design and analysis program. Also provides custom optical design and analysis consulting services. - Open source software for the design, optimization, and synthesis of optical interference coatings. - Software for optical thin film coating and spectrophotometer data acquisition - Sells retrieval software for the measurement of femtosecond laser pulses using Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG). - 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. - Curve fitting software for the Windows operating system that has been developed to facilitate spectroscopic modelling and data exchange. - 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 - 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. - Virtual Nonlinear Optics Workbook. The software enables students and scientists to perform numerical experiments in nonlinear optics. A free demo is provided. - Provides physics educational software: RAYTRACE, for teaching geometrical optics, GASSIM is a molecular simulation program, ELF is an electric field and equipotential plotter. - A software that uses inexpensive and widely-available test charts to measure device sharpness (MTF), perceptual sharpness (SQF) and many other parameters. - PC Grate is a software for calculations of diffraction efficiency of different types of relief gratings on PCs. - Laser cavity design and analysis code LASCAD, including FEA and DPSSL analysis. - Provides software for photometric analysis and lighting design of non-imaging optical systems. Products are Photopia and Lumen Micro. - Their products include the TracePro software for illumination analysis featuring tutorials on using a light pipe and the OSLO optical lens design software. - Simulates the propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in photonic crystal fibers using an adaptive split-step Fourier method (free, python). - A lens design software for Mac OS X that makes possible the simulation of ray propagation in different optical systems. - Distributor of software for optical design, illumination, straylight, integrated optics and color measurements. - Provides tools that allow straightforward analysis of systems, design of diffractive optical elements and beam shapers, analysis of gratings and laser resonator analysis. - Software for grating analysis and design based on Chandezon, True and Fourier methods. - Software for Mie scattering calculations. - Software for computing optical band structures (dispersion relations) in periodic dielectric structures and photonic crystals (free, C source). - Paraxial and Seidel calculations, spot diagrams, ray fans, 3D wave aberrations and energy distribution, optical layout, optimization. (MS-Win, free crippled version available). - Offers 3-dimensional visualization software for laser beam topography, optical interferometry, and atomic force microscopy. - 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. - A high precision software used for automatic capture and removal of lens aberrations (such as distortion and vignetting) of high-end digital cameras. - Optical design and analysis software. CAD software for light simulation. Products are SPEOS, SOLSTIS, OPTICALC and LIGHT. - 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. - Comprehensive optical design and thin film analysis software. Supports 3d surface tilts, aspheres, gratings, gradient index, spline deformation, optimization, diffraction analysis, coatings. - Software for optical system design, thin-films and illumination. - 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 and illumination software. Also pages educating about optics. - Information and download of SYNOPSYS lens design program (SYNthesis of OPtical SYStems) evaluation copy. - Different optical software packages. Lens designer, ray tracker and custom material creator. - Optical raytracing software for optical design and analysis. - Program helps use evaluate optical systems for performance standards. Page includes list of specifications, free demo and pricing information. - Supplies equipment and software for scientists and engineers. Also provides training in computer-based optical design and modelling. - Software for integrated and fiber optics. - Provides a suite of photonics software including a mode solver, optical propagation tool, design and simulation tools. - Optical engineering and optics-related software development such as FRED (optical engineering software package). - This software is designed for assessment and comparison of the major lens quality components. It measures resolution and chromatic aberration. - 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. - Software for Optical, Laser, and Integrated Optical system design. Products are PARAXIA, SIGRAPH-OPTIK, OPTEC. - Optical simulation, particle beams, and other scientific software (Macintosh). - Software for optical thin film design, characterization and metrology systems. Current products include: Film Wizard, Film Spectrum and Film Ellipse. - 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). - OSLO optical design software. Free evaluation level OSLO LT available. - Offers optical design software for engineering professionals, students and educators. Products for astronomy and astrophotography. - Software for designing and manufacturing optical multi-layer thin film coatings. Its primary product is TFCalc. - Beam III, IV, optical raytracer for use by students and optical engineers. Windows and Mac versions available. - Optical design and analysis software VOB by METEC with optimization. - Offers optical thin film design and analysis software and product descriptions for Essential Macleod. Training services and consulting for the coating industry. - Vector optical diffraction solver for 2D and 3D patterned multilayer stacks and gratings based on the MMFE and the Rayleigh-Fourier Method. - The Optical Characterization Group
offers software tools for the optical characterisation of thin film materials and multilayer stacks based on spectrophotometric and ellipsometric measurements. - FRESNEL, software that simulates laser beam propagation through various optical schemes. - Provider of ZEMAX optical design software, ZEMAX training courses, tfcalc thin film design software and laser cavity design software. - Software for laser resonator design and gaussian beam propagation (MS-Win, demo available). - Software for all aspects of optical system design.