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About LISA User Manuals and Software:
USER MANUALS
Users Manuals of LISA are available under request (see the Contact link in the previous menu). For example:
- LISA Visible Test bench
- LISA security and cautions (for visiting users)
- LISA Visible Test bench: Figures of Merit (Theory and Routines)
SOFTWARE
Most of the control of the LISA facilities are partial or entirely automatic. For example:
- Vacuum and cryocontrol of the MWIR large cryostat with Schneider PLC system
- Calibration of the VIS and SWIR diodes for flux estimation (quantum efficiency)
- Mechanisms and light sources: filter wheels, shutter, monochromator tunning
- Temperature monitor and control of Lakeshore devices
- Vacuum monitor of Leybold and Pfeiffer devices
- Data acquisition is camera-dependent. There are some routines for typical protocols, as Camera Link, Firewire and most GigEthernet, under NI-Labview standards, but it is not usual (using Masurement and Automation Explorer (MAX) from National Instruments)
- Detector controllers are also implemented, as OWL-genIII ARC systems (currently not supported by closed-ARC, but still working at LISA). Update: STA-ARCHON controller, general purpose for CCDs, CMOS and SWIR hybrid detectors.
Data processing is carried out by means of the so called FLIPA program (FITS LISA Image Processing Assistant). This is an IAC Python-based program which calculate immediately the main VIS and SWIR figures of merit, as readout noise, gain (PTC method), linearity or bad pixels, among others.
Update: May, 2026. When the arrival of the ARCHON controller to LISA, there is an intro video (in Spanish) available. (YouTube)
