Speaker
Mark Rivers
(University of Chicago)
Description
EPICS is widely used at large facilities such as accelerators and telescopes, but it is also well-suited to use in much smaller facilities. In this talk I will describe the use of EPICS in two of our small laboratories.
A Raman lab where EPICS is used to control:
- 5 lasers
- 15 motors with 3 different types of motor controllers
- Communication with PLC for laser safety system
- 2 FLIR/Point Grey cameras with areaDetector
- Princeton Instruments PIXIS camera and optical spectrometer controlled with their LightField program and areaDetector
An x-ray lab where EPICS is used to control:
- 8 motors with Delta Tau controller
- Counter/timer module from Measurement Computing
- FLIR/Point Grey camera with areaDetector for LEED system
- Granville Phillips GP307 vacuum gauge controller
- Varian ion pump controllers
- SPEC is used to collect the data, talking to EPICS
The talk will describe the EPICS drivers for a number of these devices, as well as the user interface.
Primary author
Mark Rivers
(University of Chicago)
