IPG YLR Series, User Manual

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YLR-SERIES USER GUIDE
66 PULSE SHAPING SOFTWARE OPTION | IPG PHOTONICS
3. Click
“Cap” in the Snapshot panel to capture (save) the original pulse
4. Modulate or change the pulse
5. Click
“Cap” in the Snapshot panel to switch to the original pulse, any changes to the pulse here will
be ignored.
6. Click
“Cur” in the Snapshot panel to switch to the pulse in progress, any changes to the pulse here
will be saved.
7. Click and hold
“Duo” in the Snapshot panel to see both the original pulse and current modified
pulse in the same chart each will have an identifying color.
8. Click
“Rst” in the Snapshot panel to reset the interface. Note: This will set currently viewed pulse as
the current pulse and remove the pulse that is not in the current view.
Pulse Storage and Recall
On Laser
Note: This section requires connection to the laser. It is important to write pulses to the laser in
order to use and activate them.
1. First sketch a pulse, then from the top menu, select Laser Operations->Write Profile.
2. Select a slot to write to then click Write Profile, then enter a name to save and click Write Profile.
3. The pulse data will be encoded and transmitted to the laser for storage.
4. To recall, select Laser Operations->Read Profile from the top menu, then select a slot and click
Read Profile, the pulse will be fetched, decoded, and displayed on the chart. The displayed pulse
may appear differently as any unused time in the chart will be removed as only the effective pulse
width is saved.
5. To delete a pulse, select Laser Operation->Delete Profile, select a slot then click Delete Profile.
Note: You will not be allowed to delete a pulse profile that has an attachment status greater than
zero, which means that the pulse is used by an existing sequence or sequences. However, you will
be allowed to overwrite them if you accept to bypass the warning. You will only be allowed to
delete or make changes to a pulse
if the pulse profile status is “Idle”. The “In Use” status identifies
that the laser is configured with that pulse.
On Host PC
1. In the top menu, select File->Save Profile, then select a name and path for the saved pulse.
2. To recall, select File->Load Profile from the top menu then select the name and path of the file to
load.
3. Alternatively, you can use the CSV (comma-separated value) file version of the load and save from
the main menu; the advantage is being able to modify the pulse data using a program like MS
Excel.
The following is the general format of a Pulse profile in a CSV format, consisting of tags and data values.
Required (header) tags:
[S] - Sample time in ms
[L] - Number of samples
[D] - Start of comma separated percent emission data