Lambda Research Corporation, a privately held company based in Littleton, Massachusetts provides optics software and services to government and industry worldwide. The company is an industry pioneer in the areas of stray light analysis, optical system design and analysis, scattering theory, optical testing, process control software and custom software development. Lambda Research was founded in 1992 as a result of president Edward Freniere's vision to develop a stray light analysis product that would revolutionize the way designers and engineers in the optics industry used analysis programs.