Thorlabs Beam Profiler Interface with Labview?

[Cobalted]

I am trying to interface directly with a Thorlabs Slit Beam Pofiler and while they have sent me some drivers and example program, nothing seems to be giving me the right outputs. If I use basic VISA functions I can read some of the parameters, and set some, but the information I really want is the scan data. Does anyone have experiance working with Thorlabs hardware that can tell me how to query this? The DLLs are pretty cryptic to me. I have done some programming with GPIB successfully but this is USB and while identifying the device doesn't seem an issue, I can't get much further than that. Thanks in advance for any input.

[0utlaw]

Hello Cobalted,

It looks like there are quite a few LabVIEW libraries for Thorlabs available on the NI Instrument Driver Network, you didn't specify a model but I'd look at these:

NI.com/drivers Third Party (Thorlabs)

http://search.ni.com/nisearch/app/main/p/bot/no/ap/tech/lang/en/pg/1/sn/ssnav:idr/q/thorlabs/?defaul...

If there's no library available for your hardware there, you should be able to automatically create wrapper VIs for the DLL functions using the Import Shared Library Wizard as long as the vendor has provided the header:

Using the Import Shared Library Wizard

http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361K-01/lvexcodeconcepts/importing_shared_library/

Regards, 

[Cobalted]

Thanks for the input, unfortunately the drivers are not available from the first option; the model is BP-109IR. I will look into making my own wrapper VIs as you suggested.

[newliangyi]

Hi, This is Yi Liang. I am using a beam profiler of thorlabs (BC-106VIS) . Thorlabs did not send me any examples and just asked me to read their manual. Could you send me some Labview VIs examples? Thanks. This is my email: newliangyi55@gmail.com