Redstone™ Optical Spectrum Analyzer Chapter 11: LabVIEW® Drivers
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Chapter 11 LabVIEW
®
Drivers
Before installing the LabVIEW
®
driver, please make sure that the Thorlabs OSA application has been installed.
During the installation of the Thorlabs OSA application, is it necessary to select the option to also include 32-bit
OSA library if using 32-bit LabVIEW
®
in a 64-bit OS (see Section 7.2 Software Installation).
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 32- and 64-bit OS, and both 32- and 64-bit
LabVIEW
®
can be used with 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 74. Tree VI Diagram
Figure 75. Example LabVIEW
®
VI
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