Thorlabs Motorized Filter Flip Mount (MFF10X)

Driver for controlling Thorlabs Flipper Filters using the Kinesis SDK.

One must place Thorlabs.MotionControl.DeviceManager.dll and Thorlabs.MotionControl.FilterFlipper.dll in the path

exception instrumental.drivers.motion.filter_flipper.FilterFlipperError

class instrumental.drivers.motion.filter_flipper.Filter_Flipper(inst=None, **kwds)

Driver for controlling Thorlabs Filter Flippers

The polling period, which is how often the device updates its status, is passed as a pint quantity with units of time and is optional argument, with a default of 200ms

close()

flip()

Flips the position of the filter.

get_position()

Get the position of the flipper.

Returns an instance of Position. Note that this represents the position at the most recent polling event.

get_transit_time()

Returns the transit time.

The transit time is the time to transition from one filter position to the next.

home()

Homes the device

isValidPosition(position)

Indicates if it is possible to move to the given position.

Parameters

position (instance of Position) –

move_and_wait(position, delay='100ms')

Moves to the indicated position and waits until that position is reached.

Parameters

• position (instance of Position) – should not be ‘Position.moving’

• delay (pint quantity with units of time) – the period with which the position of the flipper is checked.

move_to(position)

Moves the flipper to the indicated position.

Returns immediatley.

Parameters

position (instance of Position) – should not be ‘Position.moving’

set_transit_time(transit_time='500ms')

Sets the transit time. The transit time is the time to transition from one filter position to the next.

Parameters

transit_time (pint quantity with units of time) –

class instrumental.drivers.motion.filter_flipper.Position(value)

The position of the flipper.

moving = 0

one = 1

two = 2

instrumental.drivers.motion.filter_flipper.list_instruments()