A new checkbox within the Laser panel (labeled AGC) allows you to turn an automatic control of laser power on and off. When AGC is on, Scanbox checks the distribution of pixel values on the image every T seconds, and increases or decreases the laser power by a certain factor if the fraction of pixels…
Read MoreAll articles filed in G: Laser System Control
Synchronize to the Laser
Scanbox makes sure the data acquisition of the signals from the photo-multipliers are synchronized to the laser pulse. Let me explain why. Suppose you run an asynchronous data acquisition clock at 25Mhz while the laser has a pulse rate of 80Mhz. Then you may obtain images of single cells that look like this: This is…
Read More
Scanbox 