Thorlabs Optical Power Meter Series Remote Control Application - Readme

This software package provides a collection of sample programs to remote control the PM100A, PM100D, PM100USB, PM200 and PM160/PM16 Power Meter Series instruments via the USB interface.

OPTICAL POWER METER Utility
OPTICAL POWER METER Utility is a remote control application that provides logging functionality. This software package provides tree methods how to run OPTICAL POWER METER Utility:

1.	Direct Start Executable:
Run the executable without installation. This requires LabVIEW- and NI-VISA Runtime Engine installed on your system.

2.	Installer:
Run setup.exe to install OPTICAL POWER METER Utility on your system. Its required to additionally install NI-VISA Runtime Engine.

3.	Source Code
The LabVIEW source code of the OPTICAL POWER METER Utility remote control application.

Simple LabVIEW Example
LabVIEW source code of a basic example program for introducing you into remote controlling the PM100x and PM200.

This instrument driver library provides programming support for the THORLABS PM100A, PM100D, PM100USB, PM200 and PM160/PM16 Power Meter Series instruments.

The instrument driver package was created with National Instruments LabWindows/CVI 8.5. The LabVIEW version of this driver was generated with LabVIEW Interface Generator for LabWindows/CVI Instrument Drivers 1.2 in conjunction with LabVIEW 2011. The .NET managed library was generated by the National Instruments Measurement Studio plug-in for Visual Studio.NET 2005.

Changelog
Jan-29-2009	V1.0.0 Release
Mar-01-2009	V2.0.0
	- NEW: Support for PM100A
	- BUGFIX: Histogram
Mar-14-2009	V2.1.0
	- NEW: Support for PM100USB
	- BUGFIX: Display for dBm value improved
	- BUGFIX: Pyrosensor graph in volt
	- BUGFIX: Correct system colors
May-11-2009	V2.4.0
	- NEW: Support for sensor adapters
	- NEW: Sensor hotplug support
	- BUGFIX: Loading tau settings during initialization
	- BUGFIX: Program quits properly
	- BUGFIX: Improved graph appearance
Nov-20-2009 V3.0.0
	- NEW: Settings will be saved when pressing the Close-Window button
	- NEW: Supports PM100D firmware 2.0
Jul-18-2011  V4.0.0
	- NEW: Supports PM200 Power and Energy Meter Console
Nov-09-2011  V4.2.0
	- NEW: Supports new SCPI command structure for additional PM200 commands
Dec-09-2011  V4.2.1
	- BUGFIX: Energy graph
Jun-08-2012  V4.3
	- NEW: Supports Temp/Humidity measurement module
	- Minor bugfixes in accordance with PM200 firmware from verision1.0.3
Jun-29-2012  V4.4
	- NEW: Faster data logging
Jul-06-2012   V4.5
-	Bugfix Ranging with thermal sensors on PM200
-	Graph with time-scale
Oct-11-2012  V4.6
-	Bugfix operation with adapters
-	Bugfix timescale issues with English language settings
-	Bugfix default path settings
Oct-18-2012  V4.7
-	Bugfix Autoranging
Jan-11-2013  V4.8
-	Attenuation adjustment
Jul-04-2013   V4.9
-	Bugfix thermal adapter settings
Jul-10-2013   V4.91
-	Time resolution in ms for logfile	
Mar-24-2014  V5.0
-	Bugfix Thermopile Acceleration “Auto”
-	Bugfix Logging in secondary units
-	Bugfix setup storage and recall
-	Improved file management
Feb-26-2015  V5.2
-	Bugfix setup storage and recall, support for energy sensors
Feb-27-2015  V5.3
-	Setup name will be displayed
May-12-2015  V5.4
-	Implementation of PM16 USB Power Meter Series