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Logbook

Automatically populate logbook information from your DAQ, letting users focus on their most important information to record. Search, filter, and export to .csv, letting users focus on the data that matters most to them.

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Analysis

Interact with raw X-ray and Visar data, immediately adding key results and analysis to the logbook. Use the Summary Slides page to click through your data run by run, and see an overview of all your data, analysis, and notes.

Insights

Get an overview of your campaign progress with Campaign Insights. See how your data is distributed across your different experiments, and view shot-rate information for your high-rep rate laser experiments.

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About

Laser PI was founded to help solve the problem of organizing & analyzing data when decisions are needed every minute or faster.

Traditionally, logbooks have been kept in spreadsheets with manual data entry, often with missing data and mistakes as researchers try to keep up with the increasing shot rates of high-energy laser experiments.

Laser PI Dashboard aims to auto-populate logbook entries, allows you to search and filter to find the information you need, and to provide a central location for viewing raw data, analyzed data, and campaign insights to help you make the best decisions.

The dashboard has been developed for laser experiments at the world's leading X-ray facilities, utilizing X-ray diffraction techniques, but can be tailored to suit any specification of high-repetition rate laser experiments.

Use the link below to get in touch to find out more or to arrange a demo of our dashboard and see how Laser PI can help you.

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Laser PI Dashboard

Below you will find some of the features of the Laser PI dashboard. However, we encourage you to get in touch to arrange a demo to best see what Laser PI can do for you.

Run Quickview:

Clicking through the run number from the navbar will highlight the corresponding row in the logbook table, letting you click find the run information in the table. The selected row will be highlighted based on the type of run: Calibration, X-ray only, Laser Shot, Visar only, etc. Clicking the Quickview button will take you to the run overview page where you will be able to see a full page view of the selected run, and interact with the raw data (X-ray images, Visar images).

Quickview

Focused View:

From the navbar at the top of Laser PI Dashboard, you can quickly change the view of the logbook table to only show the information you are most interested in. You don't need to scroll through 50+ column headers to get to the parameter you need, simply click on one of the Focused View buttons for the category of parameters you need to view.

This is the default view of the logbook. All columns will be displayed in an order set out by the user in the configuration file. Any changes to column order or removed columns can be reset to default using the Logbook focused view button. Typically you will focus on run, and comments during your experiment. These columns will be listed first in the column view, but this is also customisable in the configuration file that comes with Laser PI.

View target information. Hides all columns not related to target information so that you can quickly find a key piece of information about the current target (e.g. sample-layers). All target information is also accessible from the Target Analysis page, and any changes that need to be made to entries will be updated across the whole dashboard.

Display all X-ray related parameters. Show photon-energy, xray-timing, etc. and make sure you can quickly find a configuration that was used previously during your experiment, or quickly identify the timing that was used for a particular run.

Perhaps one of the most important views to focus on. View laser columns for laser-energy-requested, laser-energy-delivered, laser-pulse-shape, laser-pulse-length, etc. Keep track of all the laser parameters that will help make sure you better understand your experimental data.

Keep track of the many different Visar settings. Ensure you have all the parameters recorded (and for all cameras that are being used) to make sure you use the correct visar-etalon, visar-vpf, and visar-sweep-window etc. so that you can analyze your Visar diagnostic data with confidence.

Keep track of all facility changes. Make sure you can check how your setup changes during your experiment and monitor important parameters as time passes.

View .poni, Laser, and Visar modals:

From the navbar at the top of Laser PI Dashboard, you can quickly change the view of the logbook table to only show the information you are most interested in. You don't need to scroll through 50+ column headers to get to the parameter you need, simply click on one of the Focused View buttons for the category of parameters you need to view.

Dashboard Pages

Each page of the Laser PI Dashboard has a direct connection to the data contained within the logbook. Clicking through run numbers from the navigation bar will update the content on each page accordingly, revealing raw data, or any data analysis that has been carried out.

Run Overview

List all logbook entries for the selected run and display interactive plots of your raw data (allowing you to zoom and click on images to display key information/analysis). Images will be calibrated based on information contained within a configuration file. From the navbar you can update the run number to update the page content and display any data that exists for the selected run.

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Run Overview page, displaying logbook parameters and raw data for a selected run.

Summary Slides

The Summary Slides page makes it incredibly easy to view a summary of the selected run. No need to search through 100's or 1000's of Powerpoint or Google Slides to find the run you are interested in. Click through from one run to another from the navbar and the Summary Slides page will update and display X-ray and Visar images, including plots of any analysis that has been carried out. Notes and analysis values from the logbook will be displayed here.

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Run Overview page, displaying logbook parameters and raw data for a selected run.

X-ray, Target, Visar, and Laser Analysis

Individual pages that are dedicated to the typical analysis that is performed on your data. Create waterfall plots for any campaign at a click of a button, hiding any particular lineout by interacting with the figure.

View a description of the target for the selected run, displaying sample-layers or material properties for all layers. List all samples and sampleID for any of the target frames you have ready to use or that have already been used in your experiment.

Identify shock-breakout times and identify particle-velocity from your analysis that can be used to determine shock conditions in your sample.

Fit ablation-pressure values with laser ablation scaling laws, allowing you to predict what laser parameters can access the conditions you require to reach.

Campaign Insights

With Campaign Insights, create plots that help understand how your whole experiment is going. View shot distributions by sub-campaigns or by material. Filter your logbook data by category and create interactive plots that help you make better decisions and make sure you leave with all the data you need.

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Example plot showing shot distribution by campaign. All plots are interactive and can be updated with a click of a button!

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