RoperScientific / Princeton

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Introduction

This plugin control a RoperScientific/Princeton camera under Windows and Linux, using the PVCAM (Photometrics Virtual Camera Access Method) libraries.

It is in production at SOLEIL under windows and it has been tested at Desy under Linux. Model used at SOLEIL: PI-MTE:2048B

Prerequisite

The RoperScientific is connected to a specific computer with a PCI board. The Lima/RoperScientific client must run on this PC.

Initialisation and Capabilities

Implementing a new plugin for new detector is driven by the LIMA framework but the developer has some freedoms to choose which standard and specific features will be made available. This section is supposed to give you the correct information regarding how the camera is exported within the LIMA framework.

Camera initialisation

The camera will be initialized within the :cpp:RoperScientific::Camera object. The camera number (as an integer) should be given to the constructor. For example: 0.

Std capabilites

This plugin has been implemented in respect of the mandatory capabilites but with some limitations according to some programmer’s choices. We only provide here extra information for a better understanding of the capabilities for the RoperScientific camera.

  • HwDetInfo

  • Max image size is : 2048 * 2048

  • 16 bit unsigned type is supported

  • HwSync

    Trigger type supported are:

    • IntTrig

    • ExtTrigSingle

    • ExtTrigMult

    • ExtGate

Optional capabilites

  • HwBin:

    • all values are accepted

  • HwRoi

Specific control parameters

Some specific paramaters are available within the camera hardware interface. Those parameters should be used carefully and one should refer to the camera SDK (or user’s guide) documentation for a better understanding.

  • getTemperature()

  • set/getTemperatureSetPoint()

  • set/getGain()

  • set/getInternalAcqMode()

  • “FOCUS”

  • “STANDARD”

  • set/getSpeedTableIndex()

Configuration

No Specific hardware configuration are needed

How to use

Here is the list of accessible fonctions to configure and use the RoperScientific detector:

void setGain(long);
long getGain();

void setFullFrame(rgn_type* roi);
void setBinRoiParameters(rgn_type* roi);

void setSpeedTableIndex(unsigned);
unsigned getSpeedTableIndex(void);
const std::string& getADCRate(void);

double  getTemperature();
double  getTemperatureSetPoint();
void    setTemperatureSetPoint(double temperature);

Code example in python:

from Lima import RoperScientific
from lima import Core

cam = RoperScientific.Camera(0)

hwint = RoperScientific.Interface(cam)
ct = Core.CtControl(hwint)

acq = ct.acquisition()

# set some configuration
cam.setTemperatureSetPoint(0)
cam.setAdcRate(0) # 0-1MHz, 1-100KHz


# setting new file parameters and autosaving mode
saving=ct.saving()

pars=saving.getParameters()
pars.directory='/buffer/lcb18012/opisg/test_lima'
pars.prefix='test1_'
pars.suffix='.edf'
pars.fileFormat=Core.CtSaving.EDF
pars.savingMode=Core.CtSaving.AutoFrame
saving.setParameters(pars)

# now ask for 2 sec. exposure and 10 frames
acq.setAcqExpoTime(2)
acq.setNbImages(10)

ct.prepareAcq()
ct.startAcq()

# wait for last image (#9) ready
lastimg = ct.getStatus().ImageCounters.LastImageReady
while lastimg !=9:
  time.sleep(0.1)
  lastimg = ct.getStatus().ImageCounters.LastImageReady

# read the first image
im0 = ct.ReadImage(0)