pymodaq_plugins_newport 1.0.0

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

• AgilisSerial: for controllers AG-UC8 and AG-UC2 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 included AgilisSerial wrapper communicating with the device using serial comunication and the pyvisa package

$ 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.