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Page 1: ...2008 Operation Manual Thorlabs SPx USB USB 2 0 Fiber Optical Spectrometer ...

Page 2: ...Version Date 1 0 08 Feb 2008 2008 Thorlabs 2008 Thorlabs ...

Page 3: ...LICCO 15 Driver Installation Part III Operating Instruction 19 19 1 Start the GUI 19 2 Connecting a device 20 3 Device window 20 4 Integration time 21 5 Averaging 23 6 Smoothing 25 7 Flip and revert picture 26 8 Display mode 26 9 Calculations with references 28 10 Peak finder 30 11 Cursor control 31 12 Saving data 33 13 Loading data 35 14 Zooming and panning 36 15 Program navigation 38 16 Color se...

Page 4: ...ce and maintenance 49 49 1 Troubleshooting Part VI Specifications 52 53 1 Dimensions Part VII Certifications and compliances 55 Part VIII Appendix 57 57 1 Warranty 58 2 WEEE 58 Waste treatment on your own responsibility 58 Ecological background 59 3 Listings 59 List of acronyms 59 List of tables 59 List of figures 61 Addresses Index 62 2008 Thorlabs ...

Page 5: ...ible criticism or ideas We and our international partners are looking forward to hearing from you Thorlabs GmbH This part of the instruction manual contains information on how to use the SPLICCO measurement system Attention This manual contains WARNINGS and ATTENTION label in this form to indicate danger for persons or possible damage of equipment Please read these advises carefully NOTE This manu...

Page 6: ...General Information Splicco Part I ...

Page 7: ...ws averaging smoothing peak indexing as well as saving and recalling data sets The initial setup is simple to complete Following installation of the software the SPx USB is ready to use Simply plug it into a USB 2 0 port and run the application software SPLICCO The remainder of this manual is devoted to the setup procedure and features of the fiber spectrometer A troubleshooting section and detail...

Page 8: ...s CPU 1GHz or higher RAM 256MB Graphic card with at least 32MB memory Hard disc with at least 100MB free storage space free USB2 0 port USB cable according the USB 2 0 specification Software compatibility Windows 2000 XP Vista VISA runtime version 4 1 0 or higher ...

Page 9: ...Installation Splicco Part II ...

Page 10: ...rt or USB 1 1 port on your PC and the device connector of the USB cable to the SPx USB and run the application program SPLICCO 2 3 USB requirements To achieve the maximum performance benefit from your LC1 USB you must have a dedicated USB 2 0 port available on your PC a built in USB 2 0 port is recommended A USB 1 1 port may be used with a degraded level of performance 2 4 Installing software 2 4 ...

Page 11: ...struments VISA runtime engine provided on the installation CD You may also download the latest NI VISA runtime engine from the National Instruments web site www ni com visa In case you want to use the VISA engine provided on the installation CD select NI VISA Engine An installation wizard will be started If you are running Windows VISTA you might be promted to change to the elevated mode Please as...

Page 12: ...abs Figure 2 VISA installation start screen Now you have to specifiy a installation path Press Next to continue Figure 3 Selection of the installation path Select I accept the License Agreement s if you do so and press Next ...

Page 13: ... features to install To operate SPLICCO you need at least the USB feature Confirm with Next to start installation Figure 5 Selection of VISA features After all files are copied and the installation was successful you might be prompted to reboot your machine Click Finish to finalize the installation ...

Page 14: ...n software from the installation menu to start the installation wizard If you are running Windows VISTA you might be promted to change to the elevated mode as shown in figure 7 Please ask your administrator for help when you do not have administrator privileges Figure 7 Request for Administrator priviliges ...

Page 15: ... prompted to specify the installation path Confirm with Next when you selected the installation path of your choice Figure 8 Selecting the installation paths Please read the end user agreement carefully and choose I accept the License Agreement s if you do so and press Next Figure 9 The end user agreement ...

Page 16: ...xt button to begin installation or click the Back button to change the installation settings Figure 10 Installation summary After installation was successful you will see a window containing some information about changelog and other notes Press Next to finish installation Figure 11 Additional notes ...

Page 17: ...opied to the system folder during the installation of SPLICCO Attention The following procedure will only be necessary for Windows XP 2000 Please be sure that a VISA runtime engine is installed on your system otherwise the device cannot be installed Connect a device a yellow popup in the left bottom corner appears displaying the name of the device Figure 13 New device was found On the first connec...

Page 18: ...ware automatically and click Next to continue Figure 15 Choosing the installation mode Now select the driver named spx usb inf in case you connected a SP1 USB SP2 USB device For a LC1 USB device select the lc1 usb inf driver Click Next to continue Attention Do not use the oemX inf drivers ...

Page 19: ...ation 2008 Thorlabs Figure 16 Selection of the correct driver Finalize the installation by clicking Finish Now the device is installed and can be used by SPLICCO Figure 17 Finishing the New Found Hardware Wizard ...

Page 20: ...Operating Instruction Splicco Part III ...

Page 21: ...e selection box Figure 18 Device menu The following window appears and shows all connected devices and additionally two virtual devices Now you can select a device to be used A panel will be created according to your selection by default If the Create a device window automatically option is not checked please use the according panel icon from the main interface Press Cancel to leave this dialog an...

Page 22: ...ngs 3 4 Integration time The integration time represents how sensitive the CCD is to incoming light CCD pixels act like light buckets gathering photons The integration time display represents how many milliseconds the bucket is open For very bright sources low integration times are required whereas for weak sources longer integration times should be used As in the light bucket analogy CCD pixels c...

Page 23: ...wn as averaging SPLICCO provides two kinds of averaging The gliding average and the block average In order to change the average properties click Devices in the menubar and move the cursor to the device to configurate then choose Properties from the submenu Figure 21 Device properties Change to the Common tabpage and change the average method to the method you want to use ...

Page 24: ...art Loop again The gliding average calculates the average from the last data sets no matter if the number of chosen data sets was reached yet If you want to average 10 data sets the gliding average will first calculate the average out of the first two data sets then out of the first three sets and so on until the desired number is reached Then the last data set will be substracted and the newest d...

Page 25: ... also known as Box Smoothing This kind of smoothing is like alow pass filter surpressing the high frequent noise Open the device properties panel Change to the Common tabpage and change the smoothing method to the method of choice In case of Box Smoothing you can set the smoothing box width below this control Zero means no smoothing at all A change will directly affect the actual graph ...

Page 26: ...4 The smoothing controls Smoothing Methods Box Smoothing The Box Smoothing is the simplest form of smoothing The only parameter needed is the box width which indicates how many values are averaged There is no weighting of those values ...

Page 27: ...lip and revert picture SPLICCO provides the possibility to flip or revert the actual measurement data displayed in a window Open the device properties panel change to the Common tabpage and check the Flip option and or the Revert option Figure 26 The flip and revert picture controls ...

Page 28: ...f pixels Open the device properties panel change to the Common tabpage and flip the switch to change between the display modes Figure 27 The display mode control 3 9 Calculations with references SPLICCO offers the posibility to calculate the live measurment with a reference curve This reference curve can be a sampled live curve or a curve loaded from a JCAMP DX file as long as the ranges are compa...

Page 29: ...ure 28 Scope mode Relative difference measurement The relative difference view shows the the live measurement values divided by the reference curve values Only changes in the spectrum will be displayed The original reference curve is still shown to allow an easy comparision Figure 29 Relative difference mode Absorbance The absorbance view shows the light absorbtion by a sample The original referen...

Page 30: ...n for comparision Figure 31 Transmittance mode 3 10 Peak finder SPLICCO offers the possibility to find peaks in an actual measurement You can find the peakfinder by right clicking on the actual window and selecting Peak finder or selecting Tools Peak finder from the menu bar Figure 32 Right click menu The following wizard will appear ...

Page 31: ...d by those two parameters are calculated and the list is filled with the found peaks You can mark a peak in the window by a left double click on the desired peak in the list This peak will be marked by a colored line in the graph The peaks can be sorted by amplitude or wavelength and can be iterated with the help of the arrow buttons and Only one peak can be marked at the same time but you can exp...

Page 32: ...e 34 Using the peak finder Figure 35 Export peaks dialog 3 11 Cursor control SPLICCO provides a cursor for instantaneous readout of wavelength and amplitude In order to use this feature right clicj on a graph and choose Cursor mode ...

Page 33: ...rs With the first left click on the graph a small window appears right besides the mouse cursor and shows the actual x value and y value The precision is always the same as the precision of the corresponding axis Figure 37 Device window in cursor mode 3 12 Saving data SPLICCO can save data either in JCAMP DX or CSV format JCAMP DX ...

Page 34: ...s jdx Additionally you can choose the range to store and the resolution which defines how many values are interpolated and saved to file High means factor 2 Low means factor 0 5 and Average means factor 1 Text entered in the Comments field will be stored together with the data Figure 38 Save Measurement Reference Data Export Data Measurement data can be exported to a csv file for ise with e g Micr...

Page 35: ...ile Open or File Import from the menu Figure 40 File dialog SPLICCO can load most JCAMP DX files with file extension jdx either as a reference to use with the live measurement data or in an individual window to show formerly saved data You can open a reference in its own window by selecting File Open from the menu or click the button Open from the toolbar A file dialog panel appears and you can se...

Page 36: ...lick on an active window and select Load reference The following window appears in which you can see the actual unzoomed live measurement By selecting a file via the Browse button a preliminary reference curve is drawn into the preview screen You can set the scale maximum and a scale offset to maximize readability This scaling influences the reference curve and future calculations By pressing Load...

Page 37: ... expand areas of interest In case the window is in Zoom mode you can box in a region by pressing and holding the left mouse button By pressing the Zoom in and the Zoom out button in the toolbar you can step in or step out on the actual windows graph Use the Zoom home button in the toolbar to zoom to the original size You can also zoom home by a right click on the graph and selecting Zoom home in t...

Page 38: ... cannot zoom out more than the original size 3 15 Program navigation SPLICCO can be operated by using the menu or the toolbar Menu SPLICCO has several menu items File menu The File menu contains all functions for saving loading and exporting measurement data You can save the current measurement data in a jdx file This kind of file can be loaded into the application You can also save and load refer...

Page 39: ...current measurement in a file jdx Prints the current window with user s comment and timestamp Connect a device Disconnect a device Creates and connects a new window to a device Closes the actual window Switches to released view Switches to tabbed view Zooms in by factor 2 Zooms out by factor 2 Zooms home Opens the devices properties panel with the common settings like smoothing Switches between lo...

Page 40: ...rs and you can set the colors to the desired value Furthermore you can select to hide the grid or not If you click on the button Reset the factory default will be restored Click on Save to confirm the setting Figure 45 Color setup 3 17 Trigger mode SPLICCO is able to generate internal trigger signals SW or use external trigger signals to take readings at defined time intervals You can set the trig...

Page 41: ... button in the left bottom corner of each device windows changes The trigger buttons labels shows the possible option e g Stop Loop or Arm Trigger Software trigger SW Trigger Continuous The default trigger mode The software triggers as fast as possible for maximal data refresh rate Figure 47 shows the status symbol and the trigger button Figure 47 Running data loop By pressing the Stop Loop button...

Page 42: ...l be armed again The status symbol and the trigger button will look the same way as in the software continuous mode Ext Trigger Singleshot You have to press the trigger button to arm the external trigger before you can readout data While the software is waiting for an external trigger signal the status symbol changes from figure 50 to figure 51 Figure 50 Arming the external trigger Figure 51 Waiti...

Page 43: ...Zoom In button It is always possible to zoom to the original window by pressing the Zoom home button or to refresh the graph by pressing the Refresh button The blue cursor in the graph always snaps to a data point so that you can mark a peak graphically The graphically marked point is shown in the Edit Calibration Points box A minimum of four and a maximum of ten calibration points are required fo...

Page 44: ...ver the whole pixel range Figure 53 Wavelength calibration window 3 19 Persistence SPLICCO offers the possibility to change the persistence attributes for each panel You can reach the menu either by right clicking on a window and choosing Persistence from the appearing menu or selecting View Persistence from the main menu The persistence dialog offers two sliders for duration and intensity of the ...

Page 45: ...nu either by right clicking on a window and choosing Gauss Transformation from the appearing menu or selecting View Gauss Transformation from the main menu The appearing dialog offers two sliders for sensitivity and significance which influences the Gaussian fit After you have chosen the paramters press Apply to make the changes valid Press Done to leave the dialog Figure 55 Gauss Transformation s...

Page 46: ...Virtual devices Splicco Part IV ...

Page 47: ...irtual devices can be set and will be stored in a XML file Available parameters device type number of pixels minimum and maximum wavelength manufacturers and instruments name serial and revision number alias lock status 4 2 Configuration of virtual devices Virtual devices offers some options to manipulate the simulated data The settings can be changed in the device properties in the Virtual settin...

Page 48: ...ion xml HINT Make a backup of this file before you modify the original to restore it if needed Please close SPLICCO before you edit this file The changes will become active after SPLICCO is started again Each virtual device has the following parameters Table 1 Virtual device parameters DEVICETYPE The device type 0 for a spectrometer 1 for a virtual line camera NUM_PIXELS The number of pixels 1 NUM...

Page 49: ...AMERA_1 DEVICETYPE 1 DEVICETYPE NUM_PIXELS 3000 NUM_PIXELS WAVELENGTH_MIN 300 WAVELENGTH_MIN WAVELENGTH_MAX 800 WAVELENGTH_MAX MANUFACTURER Thorlabs MANUFACTURER INSTRUMENT Virtual Linecamera INSTRUMENT SERIALNUMBER S N L1N3 0001 CAM SERIALNUMBER REVISION 1 00 REVISION ALIAS LC1 ALIAS LOCKSTATUS 0 LOCKSTATUS CAMERA_1 SPLICCO Figure 57 Virtual device description file ...

Page 50: ...Service and maintenance Splicco Part V ...

Page 51: ... incorrect numbers are displayed at the Excel sheet The decimal separator in your Microsoft Excel may be set to instead to The csv files generated by this program requires that Excel interprets as the decimal separator New Found Hardware Wizard finishes with the error the wizard cannot find the necessary software This error occours when the installer cannot find SPLICCO installed on your system In...

Page 52: ... Wizard finishes with the error Cannot install this hardware This error occours when the installer cannot find VISA runtime 4 1 0 or higher installed on your system Install VISA runtime Figure 59 Error message in case VISA runtime was not found ...

Page 53: ...Specifications Splicco Part VI ...

Page 54: ...ectral Range SP1 USB ð 400 to 800 nm SP2 USB ð 500 to 1000 nm CCD Integration Time 1 µs to 200 ms CCD Sensitivity 300 V lx s CCD Pixel Size 7 µm x 200 µm 7 µm pitch Dimensions L x W x H 4 4 x 3 6 x 2 0 Inches Weight 0 70 kg Cables USB 2 0 Cable 1 80 m length ...

Page 55: ...53 Specifications 2008 Thorlabs 6 1 Dimensions Figure 60 SPx USB dimensions ...

Page 56: ...Certifications and compliances Splicco Part VII ...

Page 57: ...y with the Class A Limits of FCC Code of Federal Regulations 47 Part 15 Subpart B 2 3 4 EC Declaration of Conformity Low Voltage Compliance was demonstrated to the following specification as listed in the Official Journal of the European Communities Low Voltage Directive 2006 95 EC 5 EN 61010 1 2001 Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement control and laboratory use UL 61010 1 ...

Page 58: ...Appendix Splicco Part VIII ...

Page 59: ... not liable for consequential damages Restriction of warranty The warranty mentioned above does not cover errors and defects being the result of improper treatment software or interface not supplied by Thorlabs modification misuse or operation outside the defined ambient conditions stated by Thorlabs or unauthorized maintenance Further claims will not be consented to and will not be acknowledged T...

Page 60: ...as pure OEM products that means assemblies to be built into a unit by the user e g OEM laser driver cards components mechanics and optics left over parts of units disassembled by the user PCBs housings etc If you wish to return a Thorlabs unit for waste recovery please contact Thorlabs or your nearest dealer for further information 8 2 1 Waste treatment on your own responsibility If you do not ret...

Page 61: ...ine camera Control SW Software USB Universal Serial Bus WEEE Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive XML Extensible Markup Language 8 3 2 List of tables Table 1 Virtual camera parameters Table 2 Certifications and compliances 8 3 3 List of figures Figure 1 Autorun menu Figure 2 VISA installation start screen Figure 3 Selection of the installation path Figure 4 License agreement Figure ...

Page 62: ...r Figure 34 Using the peak finder Figure 35 Export peaks dialog Figure 36 Right click menu Figure 37 Device window in cursor mode Figure 38 Save Measurement Reference Data Figure 39 Export data as CSV Figure 40 File dialog Figure 41 Load reference file Figure 42 Add reference Figure 43 Import a CSV file Figure 44 Editable axis Figure 45 Color setup Figure 46 Device trigger properties Figure 47 Run...

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Page 64: ...ser Interface 19 GUI 19 I Integration time 20 Introduction 5 L List of Acronyms 59 List of Figures 59 List of Tables 59 Loading Data 33 P Panning 35 Peak finder 28 Persistance 42 R References Calculation with 26 Requirements Hardware 6 S Safety 5 Save Data 31 Smoothing 23 Software compatibility 6 Software Installation 8 Specifications 52 SPLICCO 5 T Trigger modus 38 Troubleshooting 49 W Warranty 5...

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