Optical

Optical compression has a special sonic character that audiophiles can truly appreciate. This analog-modeled module faithfully recreates that particular (and extremely musical) 'movement' that characterizes only the best opto compressors. An important characteristic of optical compression is the... Platforms: Mac

TSDNWIN is a handy application that was created to assist you in the process of updating the firmware of your Samsung optical drives. The process is completely automated and all you'll have to do is select the drive and then download the latest available version. Platforms: Windows, XP, Windows Vista, 7, 7x64

Archives are flagged by the FBS Server as replicated once they are copied onto an external medium (tape, optical disc). RepAttrib will enable you to continue the replication by using this utility and remove the "replicated" attribute. RepAttrib can be easily run via command-line and doesn't... Platforms: Windows

WinToFlash starts a wizard that will help pull over the contents of a windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the optical drive. It can also do this with your LiveCD. You don't have to worry about scratches on the disc or misplacing your... Platforms: Windows

Screen OCR SDK is a programmers' library that allows capturing text from Windows screen, under the control of another program. Use it to capture text from any application that doesn't provide communication API's in order to feed your program with text. It gives output as text, not graphics which... Platforms: Windows

Fourier Transform Lab Student Edition is an advanced application designed for performing Fourier transformations, which can be useful in teaching Crystallography, since they are related to Optical Transforms (e.g. laser diffraction patterns). Furthermore one may get a quick hands-on experience... Platforms: Windows

Freeware for optical spectroscopy. Easy to use, fast and reliable. Viewing optical spectra (UV/VIS, IR, NIR, Raman, fluorescence) from different sources. Supported data formats include ASCII, JCAMP-DX, Galactic SPC, Perkin Elmer, Varian Cary 50, Scinco Neosys 2000, Bio-Rad FTS 3000 MX, Agilent/HP... Platforms: Windows

This utility program will help you check all your media (fixed or removable like diskettes, zip, magneto-optical disks, or CD-R,...) and ensure that all your precious data that you store on them are safe and can be accessed successfully Platforms: Windows

Koala helps you to create a self bootable USB thumbdrive installer for Windows Vista™, Windows 7™ and Windows Server System 2008™ Koala is a new software that comes with a clear aim: to make easier the installation of the new Windows operating systems on machines with no optical drive. The... Platforms: Windows

The Java Library Management System is designed to help simplify the task of managing a physical library (as opposed to software libraries), consisting of individual inventory items such as books, tapes, optical media, etc. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Optical ray tracing library based on MATLAB environment Now working on the simple raytracing simulation. Documents are not ready yet. NEW UPDATE : ray generation function, other bug fix and multiple ray treatment Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

NLO helps studying the nonlinear optical effects of crystals. It offers a GUI to plot the theoret. expected 'maker fringes', captures images from video, retrieves data from and sends data to a LockIn, controls a stepping motor, imports and plots datase Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Nounou is a Java library for handling optical imaging data. The core consists of a modular stream of 'filter blocks' that each modify or display the data. It is easily called from Mathematica and Matlab, for advanced figure output. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

OpenRayTrace is an optical lens design software that performs ray tracing. It is built using python, wxPython, and PyOpenGL. It should run on any platform that python, wxPython and PyOpenGL run on. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

phpOCR is an Optical Character Recognition system written in PHP. It can be used in automated scripts as well as web interface. Works best for small images like numeric SMS/email authorization codes, bar-code numbers and others. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

The Optics Project on the Web (WebTOP) is a 3D, interactive computer graphics system that visualizes optical phenomena. Its purpose is to help instructors teach and students learn about optics. It is a platform independent Java application that uses X3D. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

VISTAS (VCSEL Integrated Spatio-Temporal Advanced Simulator) is a highly efficient 2D, time-domain Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) model aimed at optimizing entire optical links. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Most disks (more accurately, volumes) are backed by some sort of permanent storage, such as an optical disc (as in CD and DVD), magnetic hard disk, or flash memory. In all of these cases, the data on the volume will persist after the computer is shut down, because it's been written to permanent... Platforms: Mac

DiscRotate is a Daemon that will control the speed of your optical drives. What's new in this version: * Tiger support (open beta) * Code cleanup & optimizations Platforms: Mac

LP01.m, LP02.m, LP03m, LP11.m, LP12.m, LP13.m, LP21.m, LP22.m, LP31.m, LP41.m, LP51.m, LP61.m, LP71.m are the Matlab files that generate 2 and 3D images of the corresponding optical modes Platforms: Matlab