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A scripted control system for autonomous hardware-timed experiments
P T Starkey1, C J Billington, S P Johnstone
1School of Physics, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia.
Abstract:
We present the labscript suite, an open-source experiment control system for automating shot-based experiments and their analysis. Experiments are composed as Python code, which is used to produce low-level hardware instructions. They are queued up and executed on the hardware in real time, synchronized by a pseudoclock. Experiment parameters are manipulated graphically, and analysis routines are run as new data are acquired. With this system, we can easily automate exploration of parameter spaces, including closed-loop optimization.
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