photonLauncher

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan

Github repository for the collection of scripts that we have made in this neverending journey of scientific exploration. Scripts include equipment control, as well as administrative and housekeeping tools.

As of 05/2019, some scripts specific to the Hwa Chong Photonics Lab has been moved to the hcphotonics folder. This includes a Python library for some of our implemented interfaces. They are probably still working, but have not been used since end 2016.

Some documentation may be unavailable, and we apologise for the inconvenience. Contact the authors for additional information.

Documentation for individual scripts / experiments can be found in their respective folders.

Supported equipment

Location | Equipment name --- | --- micron/ | Micos SMC Basic Microcontroller (This is old) oceanoptics/oceanoptics.py| OceanOptics Spectrometer, USB2000, USB4000 and Spectra Series hcphotonics.lecroy | Oscilloscope, Lecroy 9384TM (this is ancient) hcphotonics.thorlabs_apt| Thorlabs TDC01 Controller Cube (CR1-Z7, MTS50-Z8) hcphotonics/usbcounter| Avalanche Photon Detectors (built at NUS) hcphotonics.temp_humid| Thorlabs TSP01 Temperature and Humidity sensor (liveplotting not updated yet)

Contact Us

Feel free to add an issue or a pull request. Our emails are open.

The repository is now mainly maintained by sunjerry019, with help from starryblack. Any queries may be directed to sunjerry019 [at] gmail [dot] com.

Labs

This repository contains code made while working at the following labs:

• Hwa Chong Photonics Lab (2015 - 2016)
• NUS Nanomaterials Lab (2019 - )