Linux drivers for characterisation of photonic chips.

Included hardware includes:

• Agilent mainframe (including tunable laser and power meter modules),
• Swept lasers: Sacher Lasertechnik and Newport Venturi.
• Power meters: Thorlabs PM100 and Newport 2832C.
• Oscilloscopes: Rigol 1000Z (USB driver).
• Single photon counter/timestamper: ID Quantique IDQ801.
• Stages: Luminos, Newport and Newport Picomotor.

The drivers include generic interface abstract base classes for:

• lasers,
• power meters, and
• stages.

Functionality:

• Control all hardware individually.
• Modules to synchronise laser, power meter and stages to optimise coupling efficiency and take fibre swept images.
• Synchronise swept laser with power meters.

Requirements:

• Gnuplot required for plotting.
• linux-gpib required for equipment reliant on GPIB communication.
• pyusb required for some USB devices.
• python-usbtmc required for the Rigol1000z driver.