Spectroscopy Equipment Control and Timing Integration
Department
Chemistry
Summary
The lab wanted to run experiments that involved taking spectroscopy measurements at a large number of intervals of movement of a delay line stage. This required running separate control programs for the spectroscope and the delay line, with a lab worker manually tending the experiment the entire time to trigger each delay line stage move and subsequent spectroscope measurement, an extremely tedious and time-consuming process. The Research Software Programming team developed a program to control both pieces of equipment, automating this experimental process. The program allows extensive configuration of the experiment parameters, as well as the analysis and display of the results, all in a single piece of software.