TEC++
Optical design and analysis software VOB by METEC with optimization.

Focus Software, Inc.
Offers optical engineering software and product descriptions for ZEMAX, OptiCAD, ZELUM, and LensVIEW.

WinLase
Software for laser resonator design and gaussian beam propagation (MS-Win, demo available).

Optical Research Associates
Optical design and illumination software. Also pages educating about optics.

Breault Research Organization, Inc.
Software and consulting services for the development and analysis of optical systems.

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).

ABCD Laser Beam Propagation Software
A Macintosh-based program for propagating Gaussian laser beams through various optical elements or calculating eigenmodes of simple resonators.

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.

International Intellectual Group, Inc.
PC Grate is a software for calculations of diffraction efficiency of different types of relief gratings on PCs.

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.

Schneider Optics
GAUSSOPT-ik, Software for analysis of first order imaging properties of lenses.

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.

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.

X-Ray-Soft
Software for x-ray-tracing, simulation of x-ray microscopes and spectroscopes. Reflection and focusing properties of asymmetrically cut and bend crystals.

Stellar Software.
Beam III, IV, optical raytracer for use by students and optical engineers. Windows and Mac versions available.

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.

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.

Optikwerk
Design and simulation software of optics and complex laser systems. Offered packages are OPTIKWERKS and LASERWERKS.

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

C2V
Software for simulation and design in integrated optics components. Offers 1D and 2D mode solvers, beam propagation software and mask and device design software.

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.

WaveSim
Software for simulation and analysis of laser beam propagation such as FRESNEL.

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.

SEMA Technologies
Software for advanced 3D stereoscopic image reconstruction, measurements and analysis for SEM, AFM, and CLSM microscopy. Products are Mex, 3D-Spy, Anaglyph View.

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.

MIE Software

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.

Optical Systems Design, Inc.
Information and download of SYNOPSYS lens design program (SYNthesis of OPtical SYStems) evaluation copy.

FreeBPM
A free software for designing and simulating integrated optical elements using 2D beam propagation methods.