Thorlabs USB Camera

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Wed, 02/23/2022 - 09:28 am

Hello,

We are trying to write an XOP for controlling a ThorLabs USB camera (specifically the CC215MU) using XOP Toolkit 8. Thorlabs provides an SDK and a full list of available functions in a C API reference. Does anyone have experience writing or using an XOP for a ThorLabs camera? If you would be willing to share your code with us, that would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

Hi,

I had Thomas Braun code a special XOP for Basler camera.  He did a very nice job.

Andy

February 24, 2022 at 12:51 pm - Permalink

FWIW, if you want someone else to test the XOP, I have a ThorLabs lowlight camera. We've just been using the vendor software to acquire snapshots or time sequenced images. We post process using the Image Tools package.

March 2, 2022 at 08:49 am - Permalink

Hello,

We have written an XOP for controlling a ThorLabs USB camera (specifically the CC215MU) with help from A.G. This XOP calls upon the functions provided by Thorlabs in their SDK. We've written XOP functions for the following tasks:

1. Initializing camera resources and returning the camera's serial number to Igor as a string

2. Setting parameters (exposure, frames per trigger, and polling timeout) as variables in Igor and sending them to the camera

3. Arming the camera

4. Sending a software trigger to the camera to initiate taking a picture

5. Retrieving the pending frame and returning the image to Igor as a 2D wave

6. Taking a picture (software trigger and receiving a pending frame) and returning the image to Igor as a 2D wave (this can be done instead of steps 4 and 5)

7. Disarming the camera and cleaning up resources.

If anyone else is using a ThorLabs USB camera along with Igor Pro, please email me if you'd like to use this XOP.

April 26, 2022 at 11:27 am - Permalink