{"id":4641,"date":"2017-02-19T17:27:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2017-02-19T17:27:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:27:47","slug":"driving-a-green-laser-pointer-with-micromanager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/19\/driving-a-green-laser-pointer-with-micromanager\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving a green laser pointer with MicroManager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"647\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4642\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mm.png 602w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mm-279x300.png 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><br \/>\nReminder: green laser pointers have a ton of IR in them. It needs to be filtered out if you don&#8217;t want it. <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/laser-pointers-and-quantum-mechanics\/\">See this old (2011!) Labrigger post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I.e., <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrpaulreynolds\">Paul<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScopeKurt\">Kurt<\/a> are right (see above). The absurd amount of power you measure out of a &#8220;green&#8221; laser pointer is not because it is recklessly underspec&#8217;d (although it might be that too), it&#8217;s because you&#8217;re picking up a bunch of the IR.<\/p>\n<p>But to the point, <a href=\"http:\/\/valelab4.ucsf.edu\/~nstuurman\/protocols\/ArduinoLaser\/\">Nico shares his notes<\/a> on how to get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.micro-manager.org\/\">Micro-Manager<\/a> (open source software to control microscopes) to control a green laser pointer. Useful stuff!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ft.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"324\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4643\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ft.png 537w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ft-300x181.png 300w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ft-280x168.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nReminder: green laser pointers have a ton of IR in them. It needs to be filtered out if you don&#8217;t want it. <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/laser-pointers-and-quantum-mechanics\/\">See this old (2011!) Labrigger post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I.e., <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrpaulreynolds\">Paul<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScopeKurt\">Kurt<\/a> are&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/19\/driving-a-green-laser-pointer-with-micromanager\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32,36],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-laser","tag-microscopy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4644,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions\/4644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}