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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 13: Transport: Poster Session

TT 13.1: Poster

Monday, March 26, 2012, 15:00–19:00, Poster B

Lab::Measurement — Measurement control and automation with Perl — Florian Olbrich¹, David Kalok¹, Daniela Taubert², Daniel Schröer², and •Andreas K. Hüttel¹ — ¹Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany — ²Department für Physik, LMU München, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München, Germany

For quickly setting up varying and evolving complex measurement tasks involving diverse hardware, graphical logic programming quickly reaches practical limits. We present Lab::Measurement, a collection of Perl modules designed to control GPIB and serial instruments. It provides an interface to instrumentation control backends as e.g. Linux-GPIB or National Instruments’ NI-VISA library. Dedicated instrument driver classes relieve the user from taking care of internal details. Recording a measurement trace, say I(V_g), becomes as easy as programming a single for-loop, and much more complex setups can quickly be implemented. At the same time, the modules provide (live) plotting and metadata handling. Lab::Measurement has already been successfully used in several low temperature transport spectroscopy setups. It is free software and available at http://www.labmeasurement.de/