PULSE SHAPING SOFTWARE OPTION | IPG PHOTONICS
Sequence Editing
Note: This section requires connection to the laser
A pulse sequence is an arrangement of pulses, designed for finite or infinite repeats, and organized into steps, each step has an
assigned an existing pulse, pre-delay and repeat amount. PSG will check each created sequence for any Average Power and
other laser limitation violation, and will prompt the user to make adjustments.
Building a Sequence
1. Start the Sequence Editor by selecting it from the top menu
2. In the Arrangement panel, click Add to add a sequence step
3. In the added step, enter a Pre-Delay value, select a Pulse Profile and enter a number of Repeats
(number of times the selected Pulse Profile with Pre-delay must be repeated consequently).
4. Click Add again to add more sequence steps in the same fashion.
5. You can set the number of sequence repeats by setting Repeats and Intervals in the Sequence
panel.
6. The preview of the sequence will be refreshed when changes are made to the pulse. Additionally,
laser limitation violations are re-checked.
7. A Blank profile is a special “null profile” space holder for introducing delay only as a sequence step.
Modifying a Sequence
1. In the Arrangement panel, highlight an existing step, then click:
2. Insert to insert a new sequence step before the selected one
3. Move Up to shift up the selected sequence step in the sequence order
4. Move Down to shift down the selected sequence step in the sequence order
5. Remove to delete the selected sequence step
Sequence Storage and Recall
Note: This entire section requires connection to the laser.
On the Laser
It is important to write pulse sequences to the laser in order to use and activate them,
in the Sequence Editor, select Laser Operations->Write Sequence, then select a slot and click
1. Write Sequence, enter a name for the sequence then click Write Sequence.
2. To recall, select Laser Operations->Read Sequence, then select a slot and click Read Sequence,
the sequence will be fetched and loaded into the arrangement panel.
3. To delete a sequence, select Laser Operations->Delete sequence, select a slot then click Delete
sequence. Note: It is not possible to delete a sequence if the status is not “Idle”. When the status is
“In Use”, it means that the laser is configured with that pulse sequence.
On the Host PC
In the top menu, select File->Save Sequence, then select a name and path for the saved sequence.
To recall, select File->Load Sequence from the top menu then select the name and path of the file to load.
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