Optical Power Meters¶

This module provides support for controlling optical power meters with Python. Optical power meters can be loaded by

>>> import hardware
>>> opm = hardware.function_generators.Newport_1830_C('GPIB0:...')

class hardware.optical_power_meters.Newport_1830_C(address)[source]¶

Hardware wrapper for Newport 1830C optical power meter.

Parameters:	visa_search_term (str) – The address that is passed to `visa.ResourceManager().open_resource()`
Variables:	power (float) – The measured power in Watts

identify()[source]¶

Returns:	str – The response from an `*IDN?` GPIB query.