slmcontrol 0.0.7

A package used to control Spatial Light Modulators (SLM)

slmcontrol

This is a package that allows one to control a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) with a simple an intuitive syntax. We support Python 3.7-3.12.

If you use this package in your research, please cite it and give it a star on GitHub.

Links

• PyPI
• Documentation
• Source code

Instalation

To install this package, run

pip install slmcontrol

on a terminal.

It will work of the box for Windows. That is also the expected behavior for MacOS, but it has not been tested. For Linux, you will need to manually install wxPython before using this package.

If you encounter the error libSDL2-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, you need to install the package libsdl2-2.0-0 (on Ubuntu, run sudo apt install libsdl2-dev).

If you encounter any problems, please open an issue on GitHub.

Authors

Developed by PhD students at the Quantum Optics Laboratory of Universidade Federal Fluminense:

• Marcos Gil
• André Junior
• Altilano Barbosa
• Braian Pinheiro

The part of the code that sends image to the SLM (slm.py) was taken from the repository pyslm from Sébastien M. Popoff, with only minor modifications.