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

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 - Publishes TracePro and OSLO software for optical design and analysis and illumination design and analysis, and provides consulting services for design, analysis, and software development.

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.

Micro Systems Design - Laser design and analysis code LASCAD, customized optical simulations.

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.

OptiLayer - Thin film software for design of optical coatings using needle optimization.

Optima-Research - Supplies equipment and software for scientists and engineers. Also provides training in computer-based optical design and modelling.

Photonic Software for the Photonic Networking Industry - CAD software packages for photonic and optoelectronic devices.

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.

OpTiX - Optical design and analysis software. Supports 3d surface tilts, aspheres, gratings, gradient index, spline deformation, optimization, diffraction analysis, coatings. Imports and exports from/to Code V, Oslo, Zemax. A free version OpTiX-LT is available.

FreeBPM - A free software for designing and simulating integrated optical elements. These are the core technology of optical communication and the Internet.

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

East Coast Optical Corporation - Software development tools and applications for thin film metrology (film thickness, spectral ellipsometry). Also offers software and optical design services.

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.

MS Macrosystem - Offers 3-dimensional visualization software for laser beam topography, optical interferometry, atomic force microscopy.

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.

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.

Kymata - Software for integrated optics such as 1D and 2D mode solvers, beam propagation software and mask and device design software.

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

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 (TM)

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.