Controlling Optilab devices with Python and PyQtGraph
Optilab GUIs
Posted at February 25, 2016
Optilab has some nice compact optical devices, such as low power erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, as well as photodiodes.
They are equipped with a serial port which allows controlling and monitoring the devices. Unfortunately, no GUI is provided by Optilab.
Therefore, I wrote two small Python scripts which use the excellent PyQtGraph which allow for an easy control of these devices. Available on GitHub, for Optilab EDFA (model EDFA-16-LC-M ) and Optilab Photodiode (model LR-12-A (869 KiB)).