Add laser blanking#33
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These are two separate adjustments (time for scanner to settle into linear motion vs compensation for command-scanner lag), and it works better to have individual adjustments. Also decouple the scan waveform sample frequency from the pixel rate, and make the retrace duration scale with amplitude. These refactorings were easier to do in one step. Clock output, for now, uses aoRateHz. In the future it might make sense for it to follow detector acquisition instead. The default values of the new parameters preserve behavior for 256x256, 200kHz, zoom=1. Remove DumpWaveform rather than maintain it, because we now have WaveformTool and waveform_viewer.py (which are updated here). (Assisted by Claude Code; any errors are mine.)
The AO scan waveform and the line/frame clocks are produced on the AO sample grid, but the detector acquires pixels on the pixel grid. With the AO rate an independent setting, the per-line scan window didn't exactly equal the acquisition window: the line clock edge could be a fraction of a pixel off at line end. Remove the user setting for AO rate; constrain aoRate = K * pixelRate for integer K dividing the pixel period in sample clock timebase (usually 100 MHz) ticks. This makes the AO rate an exact timebase divisor (keeping the timebase-derived line counter drift-free) and the scan window an exact integer number of pixels. Among valid K with the AO rate in [100 kHz, device max], pick the rate closest to 200 kHz (galvo bandwidth is ~kHz; higher only wastes memory/CPU), preferring the higher on a tie. (Assisted by Claude Code; any errors are mine.)
Adjustable on/off voltages and lead/lag time. Allow to disable blanking (= turn on laser) for alignment, etc. (Assisted by Claude Code; any errors are mine.)
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Use 3rd AO channel (
ao2, if present) for laser blanking (assuming an EOM or similar device).Adjustable on/off voltages and lead/lag time. Allow to disable blanking (= turn on laser) for alignment, etc.
For now this draft is on top of #30; we can rebase onto main after #30 is merged.
Not tested yet.