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Wiki page [AutoMichelson] by ivan 2013-07-01 22:49:26.
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<h1>AUTOMICHELSON</h1>

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<p>This project originated while trying to automate the measurement of the
wavelength of a lightsource and its coherence length using motorized linear
stages (in specific
<a href="http://zaber.com/products/product_detail.php?detail=T-LSM025A">this
one</a>) in a Michelson interferometer. The detection is done with a Thorlabs camera/CCD (google it) via the ueye program from IDS imaging.</p>

<p>The main objective is generating a code repository with the code used to
make the measurements and their respective analysis using python and ipython
(with the notebook interface).</p>

<p>The project is divided into the "notebook" directory which contains the
ipython notebooks used to make the measurements (obtain the data) and make the
analysis. There is also a "codes" directory which contains the raw python code
that may be useful for preparing your experiment (for moving the linear stage
and such).<br>
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<h2>What's needed</h2>
To be able to use the code in this project you need a python environment with scientific tools available (scipy, numpy, matplotlib), you also need python-pyserial module and the pyueye module (you can grab it from <a href="https://code.google.com/p/pyueye/">here</a>) to be able to communicate with the camera).

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