Controlling the laser

BakingTray controls the laser so that acquisition can be automatically halted if modelock is lost. There are laser control classes for MaiTai and Chameleon lasers. The laser can be controlled via the the "Laser" button in the main GUI.

Troubleshooting

Sometimes initial connection to the laser fails. If this happens try the following. Firstly, attempt to open the laser shutter because sometimes the laser is in fact connected: hBT.laser.openShutter If that fails (it returns 0) then you will need to try disconnecting and reconnecting to the laser with hBT.renewLaserConnection. You can also try this manually:

delete(hBT.laser)
hBT.laser = maitai('COM1'); % assuming you have a MaiTai on COM1
hBT.laser.parent = hBT;