Monthly Archives: May 2009

Scientific Software Wants To Be Free

Go read this wonderful manifesto over at arXiv: Astronomical Software Wants To Be Free: A Manifesto by Weiner et al. The authors talk about some of the barriers to astronimical software development that are true in all scientific fields. The … Continue reading

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meep

meep is a free finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation software package developed at MIT to model electromagnetic systems. Find meep at: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/meep/

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CAMFR

CAMFR (CAvity Modelling FRamework) is a fast, flexible, friendly full-vectorial Maxwell solver. Its main focus is on applications in the field of nanophotonics, like wavelength-scale microstructures, lasers and light-emitting diodes. Find CAMFR at: http://camfr.sourceforge.net/

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LaserFOAM

Solves the Nonlinear Schrdinger equation using the split-step Fourier method in order to simulate the propagation of an ultrashort laser pulse in photonic crystal fibers. Find LaserFOAM at: http://laserfoam.sourceforge.net/

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