User Guide

The User Guide explains how Laser Setup is put together and how each part behaves. Where the Tutorials teach by doing, these pages are the reference you come back to.

• Architecture

  The big picture: how the entry point, config, GUI, procedures and instruments interact.

• The Graphical Interface

  Main window, experiment window, sequence window and the widgets.

• Configuration System

  YAML + OmegaConf/Hydra: layering, resolvers, and every config section.

• Procedures

  The class hierarchy and a catalog of every built-in measurement.

• Instruments

  Supported hardware, the InstrumentManager, and debug mode.

• Sequences

  Chaining procedures, common parameters and parameter sweeps.

• CLI & Scripts

  The laser_setup command and the bundled utility scripts.

• Data & Output Files

  File naming, the CSV header format, and the SQLite database.