Documentation of in qt3scan

[gadamc]

qt3scan documentation only consists of the help file.

Need full doc explaining all of the components.
Pay special attention to the meaning of N samples in DAQ section. Experimenter needs to understand clock rate, number of samples -- essentially the total time to observe per pixel.

[gadamc]

Would be great to have an image of the GUI and accompanying documentation describing each of the parts of the GUI. Would be a great way for new developer of this code to become familiar!

[gadamc]

Thanks to @Waffelz

Pointed out that there is no documentation that describes the output data from qt3scan.

When you open a compressed numpy array from qt3scan you will see the following keys: raw_counts, count_rate, scan_range, step_size and daq_clock_rate.

[Waffelz]

When loading the confocal scan files saved as a compressed numpy array(.npz) can use these lines to load

from numpy import load
confocals=your list of file names

#load one scan at once

data = load(confocals[0])

showing the keys of the data file

lst = data.files
print(lst)
['raw_counts', 'count_rate', 'scan_range', 'step_size', 'daq_clock_rate']

'count_rate' is a 2d array with the photon counts per second for each index. Can plot the scan with

axes.imshow(data['count_rate'], origin='lower', extent=data['scan_range'])

the data under the first key 'raw_counts' has the same dimension as that of 'count_rate', but for each index the clock cycle has been saved together with the raw count in the form data['raw_counts'][0,0]=[raw count, clock cycle]. count rate/s=raw count/clock rate*clock cycle.