Need Agilent 81689A control Code

[Felix Yang]

I want to control wavelength and power of the Agilent 81689A tunable laser via GPIB interface. Is there available LabVIEW code? Besides, how fast can the laser be controlled (time required for the next wavelength/power setting)? Thanks!

[JLS]

Hello,

There may be LabVIEW code already available; the following are great places to check:

1. The NI Instrument Driver Network site at: (I looked here for you and did not see a driver, though perhaps you can double check the model number since there are many Agilent device drivers available)

http://zone.ni.com/idnet97.nsf/browse/


2. Agilent's website (or contact them and ask; often manufacturers will write LabVIEW drivers for their instruments).

Otherwise you can use the manual and/or contact Agilent to get a list of commands that your instrument accepts, and you can use GPIB or VISA commands to perform your desired control. In general, the rate at which you can communicate depends on the limits of your instrument and GPIB interface on your compute
r (for example, whether both are HS488 compliant).

Thank you,

JLS