THORLABS Redstone OSA305 Manual

Optical Spectrum Analyzers Chapter 9: LabVIEW® Drivers
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Chapter 9 LabVIEW
®
Drivers
The Redstone OSA305 and OSA20xC instruments can be controlled by custom LabVIEW
®
programs, if the
required drivers have been installed. These can be downloaded from the ThorSpectra software page
(https://www.thorlabs.com/software_pages/ViewSoftwarePage.cfm?Code=OSA). Before installing the
LabVIEW
®
driver, please make sure that the ThorSpectra application has been installed.
The LabVIEW
®
driver contains functions for acquiring, processing, analyzing, and plotting interferograms and
spectra with different options. The drivers are based on functions found in the FTSLib.dll which is also used by
the application GUI. See Thorlabs → Manual FTSLib in the Windows
®
Start menu for details.
The drivers can be accessed from the Windows
®
Start menu under Thorlabs → LabView.
The LabVIEW
®
drivers support LabVIEW
®
2010 and later in 64-bit OS, see the readme.pdf for details.
Open the “Tree VI” to get a categorized overview of the drivers and explore the examples for information on
how they can be implemented. The small example shows the basic vis required for instrument communication
and for acquiring of interferograms and spectra, and a larger example shows how to implement data processing
and analyzing functions. Plotting functions are also included to facilitate presentation of large data sets.
Figure 30. Tree VI Diagram
Figure 31. Example LabVIEW
®
VI

THORLABS Redstone OSA305 Specifications

General

Brand	THORLABS
Model	Redstone OSA305
Category	Measuring Instruments
Language	English