Thorlabs PM100-PM200 Series Remote Control Application - Readme

This software package provides a collection of sample programs to remote control the PM100A, PM100D, PM100USB, and PM200 Power Meter Series instruments via the USB interface.

PM100-PM200 Utility
PM100-PM200 Utility is a remote control application that provides logging functionality. This software package provides tree methods how to run PM100-PM200 Utility:

1.	Direct Start Executable:
Run the executable without installation. This requires LabVIEW- and NI-VISA Runtime Engine installed on your system.

2.	Installer:
Run setup.exe to install PM100-PM200 Utility on your system. Its required to additionally install NI-VISA Runtime Engine.

3.	Source Code
The LabVIEW source code of the PM100-PM200 Utility remote control application.

Simple LabVIEW Example
LabVIEW source code of a basic example program for introducing you into remote controlling the PM100x and PM200.

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

The instrument driver package was created with National Instruments LabWindows/CVI 8.5. 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.

Changelog
Jan-29-2009	V1.0.0 Release
Mar-01-2009	V2.0.0
	- NEW: Support for PM100A
	- BUGFIX: Histogram
Mar-14-2009	V2.1.0
	- NEW: Support for PM100USB
	- BUGFIX: Display for dBm value improved
	- BUGFIX: Pyrosensor graph in volt
	- BUGFIX: Correct system colors
May-11-2009	V2.4.0
	- NEW: Support for sensor adapters
	- NEW: Sensor hotplug support
	- BUGFIX: Loading tau settings during initialization
	- BUGFIX: Program quits properly
	- BUGFIX: Improved graph appearance
Nov-20-2009 V3.0.0
	- NEW: Settings will be saved when pressing the Close-Window button
	- NEW: Supports PM100D firmware 2.0
Jul-18-2011  V4.0.0
	- NEW: Supports PM200 Power and Energy Meter Console
Nov-09-2011  V4.2.0
	- NEW: Supports new SCPI command structure for additional PM200 commands
Dec-09-2011  V4.2.1
	- BUGFIX: Energy graph
Jun-08-2012  V4.3
	- NEW: Supports Temp/Humidity measurement module
	- Minor bugfixes in accordance with PM200 firmware from verision1.0.3
Jun-29-2012  V4.4
	- NEW: Faster data logging
Jul-06-2012   V4.5
-	Bugfix Ranging with thermal sensors on PM200
-	Graph with time-scale
Oct-11-2012  V4.6
-	Bugfix operation with adapters
-	Bugfix timescale issues with English language settings
-	Bugfix default path settings
Oct-18-2012  V4.7
-	Bugfix Autoranging
Jan-11-2013  V4.8
-	Attenuation adjustment
Jul-04-2013   V4.9
-	Bugfix thermal adapter settings
Jul-10-2013   V4.91
-	Time resolution in ms for logfile