coherent_lasers

Python drivers for Coherent lasers.

Project Overview

Repository is organized by laser model. Each laser model has its own directory containing the driver code.

coherent_lasers/
├── src/
│   ├── app/
│   │   ├── frontend/build/(build files from webgui)
│   │   ├── messaging/
│   │   ├── cli.py
│   │   ├── server.py
│   ├── genesis_mx/
│   │   ├── commands.py
│   │   ├── mock.py
│   │   └── driver.py
│   │   ├── hops/
│   │   │   ├── CohrFTCI2C.h
│   │   │   ├── CohrHOPS.h
│   │   │   ├── (DLL files for each .h file)
│   │   │   ├── lib.py
├── setup.py
└── webgui (web frontend for controlling the laser)

Supported Lasers

1. Genesis MX The GenesisMX class provides a comprehensive API for controlling the laser. Supports connection via USB using the HOPS SDK provided by Coherent.

Usage

: Note: Installing the package from a wheel file will ensure that the necessary dll files are included. If you install the package from source, you will need to download the dll files and add them to the src/coherent_lasers/src/hops directory.

Running from a wheel file

Download the latest release from the releases page.

pip install <path_to_downloaded_wheel>

Alternatively you can install the coherent_lasers package directly from a GitHub release using pip.

coherent_version=0.2.0
pip install https://github.com/AllenNeuralDynamics/coherent_lasers/releases/download/v${coherent_version}/coherent_lasers-${coherent_version}-py3-none-any.whl

To launch a web GUI for controlling the laser, run the following command:

genesis-mx

Running from source

git clone git@github.com:AllenNeuralDynamics/coherent-lasers.git

cd coherent_lasers

uv sync

cd webgui && pnpm i && pnpm run build && cd ..

genesis-mx

alternatively, you can run the server using fastapi cli:

cd src/coherent_lasers/app

```bash
uv run fastapi dev server.py

Building the Web GUI

cd webgui

Note: You can also use npm or yarn in place of pnpm below, to install the dependencies and build the project.

pnpm i

pnpm run build

cd ../src/coherent_lasers/app

uv run fastapi dev server.py