pymodaq_plugins_newport 0.1.1

Set of PyMoDAQ plugins for instruments from Newport (Conex, ESP100,...)

PyMoDAQ plugin for instruments from Newport (Conex, ESP100, AG-CU8…)

Authors

• Sebastien J. Weber

• David Bresteau ([e-mail])

Instruments

Below is the list of instruments included in this plugin

Actuators

• Conex: Piezo actuators from the CONEX-AGAP series”

• Newport_ESP100: ESP100 motion controllers

• AGILIS AG-CU8: tested with motorized mounts AG-M100N (no encoder)

Installation notes

AGILIS AG-CU8

Install Newport AG-UC2-UC8 applet available here: https://www.newport.com/p/AG-UC8 and test that you can communicate with this firmware.

This plugin use the instrumentkit library. Currently the version proposed on pypi 0.6.0 does not include the newport/agilis.py file that we are interrested in. We recommand to install the library from git (not with pip), as it is explained in this page: https://github.com/Galvant/InstrumentKit

$ git clone [e-mail]:Galvant/InstrumentKit.git

$ cd InstrumentKit

$ python setup.py install

This last command should be executed in the python environment where you installed pymodaq.

Tested on Windows10 with pymodaq 3.3.0.