Thorlabs PM100x Series VISA Instrument Driver - Readme

This instrument driver library provides programming support for the THORLABS PM100A, PM100D, PM100USB and PM200 Power Meter Series instruments.

The driver installs to into your system's VXIpnp directory. This is typically 'C:\Program Files\IVI Foundation\VISA\WinNT' or '\C:\VXIPNP\WinNT'.

The instrument driver package was created with National Instruments LabWindows/CVI 10.0.0. The LabVIEW version of this driver was generated with LabVIEW Interface Generator for LabWindows/CVI Instrument Drivers 1.2 in conjunction with LabVIEW 8.5. The .NET managed library was generated by the National Instruments Measurement Studio plug-in for Visual Studio.NET 2005.

Important Note:
This software needs a NI-VISA engine to be installed on the target system. You may download a VISA engine from http://www.ni.com/visa.

Copyright:
This software is copyright Ó 2008-2011, Thorlabs GmbH

License:
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

Programming Examples:
This driver comes with a set of programming examples. These are installed in the <Driver directory>\samples\ directory.

Supported platforms:
This software was verified with the following platforms:
	- Windows XP (32-bit version)
	- Windows Vista (32-bit version)
	- Windows Vista x64 Edition (64-bit version)
	- Windows 7 (32-bit version)
	- Windows 7 x64 Edition (64-bit version)

Changelog
V2.1	Jul-20-2011
Added support for PM200 instruments.

V2.0	Nov-18-2009
Added support for PM100A and PM100D instruments with firmware version 2.0.0 or higher. These instruments use separate USB product IDs with enabled/disabled DFU interface. Increased communication timeout value.

V1.2	May-18-2009
Added functions to get/set auto acceleration mode for thermal sensors.

V1.1	Apr-24-2009
Added support for PM100A and PM100USB instruments. Added functions to get/set the custom sensor input adapter type.

V1.0	Dec-23-2008
Initial release