THORLABS M2MS, Operating Manual

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BP209 Series 6 The Graphics User Interface (GUI)
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6.1.3 Options Menu
These entries allow changing the device (Beam Profiler) and application (GUI) specific settings
and let you choose a language.
Beam Settings
The Beam Settings panel contains all important information about the optical settings, the pro-
perties of the active Beam Profiler and a summary of the calculated beam parameters. Please
see the detailed description of this panel in the section
Beam Settings .
Display Settings Panel
Here, the different styles for 2D Reconstruction and 3D Profile are listed for selection.
There are 3 different color scale types available:
· Better resolution of lower intensities (Logarithmic Scale))
· Linear scaling of the color bar (Linear Scale)
· Better resolution of higher intensities (Quad Scale)
User-Configured Color Scales
If a certain color scale is required it is possible to create a custom color scale which can be
loaded automatically by starting the application. To do so a few things need to be considered.
When starting the software, the application loads valid *.lut files from the folder:
...\My Documents\Thorlabs\Thorlabs Beam\LUT
A valid *.lut file must fulfill the following criteria:
·
Ordinary text file with 9 columns and 256 rows
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