NI6321 triggering laser

[joegruber]

Hey guys,

I have an Agilent signal generator triggering my PCIe 6321 card and an ultrasonic pulser. Furthermore I want also to trigger two other devices (two different lasers).

However, since the signal generator has only 2 outputs, I was wondering if I can control the two lasers via the NI card.

The card has four 32-bit counter/timer outputs and I was hoping I could use these outputs to generate two pulse trains in order to trigger my two lasers.

I am quite new to data acquisition, so I am not quite sure if this is possible after all. Also the NI card has to acquire information from a transducer and I am not sure if the card can acquire stuff and generating 2 pulse trains at the same time.

Thanks!

[Timo.Schroeder]

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The card has four 32-bit counter/timer outputs and I was hoping I could use these outputs to generate two pulse trains in order to trigger my two lasers.

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Yes u can.

[joegruber]

Thanks, that is good to hear.

One more question: Where can I find some specification in term of the pulse generation of my card?

Like what pulse frequencies I can create and the fall/rise times of the pulses.

[Timo.Schroeder]

http://sine.ni.com/ds/app/doc/p/id/ds-152/lang/de

Keyword: trigger

relatively at the beginning.

cheers, Timo

[joegruber]

There are many specs in this link but I have a hard time to find what I need.

Can I generate pulse trains up to 10 kHz, with rise/fall times not exceeding 20 ns with my NI 6321?