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Measurement and Visualization

All of our instruments are controlled by the polarization NAVIGATOR software package. This software includes all drivers, user manuals and help files. Furthermore, the suitable instrument firmware is included with this software package.

The polarization NAVIGATOR offers comprehensive capabilities for performing measurements and for evaluating the measured data. The measured data can be exported in different file formats. Furthermore, the software can be remotely controlled (automation) by any software which can call DLL functions. Examples for LabView, MATLAB and Python-automation are included.

Screenshots:

• Display Stokes parameters on the Poincaré sphere.
• Measure Stokes parameters as a function of time.
• Measure degree of polarization (DOP) as a function of time.
• Calculate polarization extinction ratio (PER) from SOP-trajectories.
• Measure differential group delay (DGD) of fibers and components.
• Measure PDL of fibers and components.
• Measure insertion loss of optical filters.
• Export measurements to MATLAB.

Feature highlights:

• Hardware support:
  • Control of all adaptif instruments using USB or GPIB.
  • Updating of the instrument's firmware if necessary
  • Control of third-party laser sources using a standard GPIB-interface or the GPIB-interface of an adaptif instrument as GPIB-master.
  • LabView drivers for direct control of the instruments are included.
• Application-Plugins for the following applications:
  • PMD/PDL-Measurement
  • Polarization Extinction (PER) of PMFs
  • Polarization Extinction (PER) of polarizers or polarization beamsplitters
  • Data logging of long-term measurements
• Data Export:
  • Fileformats: .pbin, .asc, .rtf, .mat
  • DDE-Export to EXCEL and MATLAB
  • Report-Generation (RTF)
• Automation:
  • DLL-based automation interface
  • Examples included for LabView, MATLAB, Excel and Python