4.1 Connecting a Power Sensor
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4 Operating the PM100A
4.1 Connecting a Power Sensor
The PM100A supports all Thorlabs „C-Series photodiode and thermal sensors.
These can easily identified against older versions of Thorlabs power sensors by their
red connector housing. The console will not recognize sensors from the „A‟ and „B‟
series. Please contact Thorlabs for the upgrade of old sensors with „C-Series‟
connectors.
To plug or remove a sensor slightly press on the two bolts in the connector housing,
that fix it by resilience. Sensors can be „hot-swapped‟ to the console, after
recognizing a new valid sensor the type and calibration data will be downloaded to
the console in approximately 2 seconds, and the unit is ready to operate with the
new sensor.
The PM100A also supports custom detectors, please refer to chapter 4.2.2 for the
console measurement settings and chapter 7.4 for the connector pin-out.
4.2 Controlling the PM100A
4.2.1 Navigating the Menus
The measurement screens contain of five menu items (soft buttons) that are
arranged in a column in the right of the graphics display. These can be navigated
with the up and down () keys and controlled by the left and right () keys
and/or the enter/edit (OK) key
The focus is always on the button in inverse presentation .
4.2.2 System Settings
After navigating to the bottom soft button MENU and confirming it with the OK key
the system menu can be scrolled with the or keys. To perform the initial
adjustments the settings can be edit or changed with the or keys on ring
controls or by using all navigation keys for numeric controls.
The menu is arranged on three pages with four lines each. The items depend on the
connected sensor. To leave the system menu press the OK key or navigate down or
up to the „EXIT‟ item and confirm with OK.
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