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hardware:lasers [2019/07/05 20:37]
Jon Daniels [Spectral Applied ILE] 		hardware:lasers [2023/10/26 16:27]
Jon Daniels [Vortran VersaLase]
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 === Micro-manager notes === === Micro-manager notes ===
-  * Use Vortran VersaLase device adapter.  Clunky but undergoing improvement as of May 2016 and supported by Vortran.+  * Use Vortran VersaLase device adapter.  Hardware changes to the launch (circa 2021?) prevent using Micro-Manager with the latest launches as of Oct 2023.  Vortran is aware of the problem; the more customers ask the more likely they will be to allocate resources to fix things.  In the interim you can use an analog output device controlled via Micro-Manager (e.g. ASI's TGDAC4 card, Triggerscope, etc.) to control the laser intensity so that the intensity settings are saved in the image metadata.  
  
  
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   * Probably would work if you had way to control intensity, e.g. by DAC card.   * Probably would work if you had way to control intensity, e.g. by DAC card.
  
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 +==== Oxxius Laser Combiner ====
 +
 +=== Implementation notes ===
 +  * Dual output available
 +  * Many features and wavelengths available
 +
 +=== Usage ===
 +  * Make sure you place the fiber coupler on its correct magnetic base. Otherwise you can have significant power loss.
 +=== Micro-manager notes ===
 +  * The combiner must be set up as a virtual comm port. Use the "CDC" command. (https://micro-manager.org/Oxxius_combiner) 
 +  *It is recommended that you include, emission, shutters, and digital modulation in the startup group.

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