Nonlinear Control Strategies Inc. (NLCST) was established as an S-Corporation in May 2000 with the goal of transitioning leading edge research in the general photonics area into commercial technology applications. The company leverages worldwide expertise in theory and computation in the fields of nonlinear optics, computational photonics, computational nanophotonics and semiconductor physics. The company enjoys close ties with leading edge research being carried out at the University of Arizona (Tucson, USA) and with the Philips University, Marburg, Germany.

Among the first commercial products launched exclusively through NLCST are generic and custom semiconductor gain databases. These represent the culmination of major research efforts at Arizona and Marburg in the calculation of the optical properties of a broad class semiconductor quantum well structures, spanning the III-V, II-VI and other novel materials systems such as GaInNAs. The computation of these databases has reached such a level of sophistication that they can now be used to a priori design a semiconductor amplifier or laser system from first principles without the need for ad hoc adjustable parameters. Leading semiconductor laser manufacturers that use these gain databases include (Coherent (USA), Osram (Germany), Princeton Optronics (USA), Nortel Networks (Canada), etc

Another leading product of NLCSTR is a GUI-driven vector Maxwell solver Sim3D_Max™. This software is now being used by the world’s leading manufacturers of high density optical data storage devices (Philipps (Holland), Hitachi (Japan and USA), Canon (USA), Sony (Japan), Imation (Japan) etc. The software is designed as a stand alone product or can be used directly in conjunction with another leading optical software product DIFFRACT™, marketed by MMResearch™.