Tango Controls and data pipeline for petawatt laser experiments

Tango Controls and data pipeline for petawatt laser experiments

The Centre for Advanced Laser Applications in Garching, Germany, is home to the ATLAS-3000 multi-petawatt laser, dedicated to research on laser particle acceleration and its applications. A control system based on Tango Controls is implemented for both the laser and four experimental areas. The devi...

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Published in:High power laser science and engineering Vol. 11
Main Authors: Weiße, Nils, Doyle, Leonard, Gebhard, Johannes, Balling, Felix, Schweiger, Florian, Haberstroh, Florian, Geulig, Laura D., Lin, Jinpu, Irshad, Faran, Esslinger, Jannik, Gerlach, Sonja, Gilljohann, Max, Vaidyanathan, Vignesh, Siebert, Dennis, Münzer, Andreas, Schilling, Gregor, Schreiber, Jörg, Thirolf, Peter G., Karsch, Stefan, Döpp, Andreas
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01-01-2023
Subjects:
Cameras
Communication
Control systems
Data acquisition
Data processing
Experiments
high-power laser experiments
Infrastructure
Laser applications
Lasers
laser–plasma acceleration
Modularity
online diagnostics
Open source software
Operating systems
Particle acceleration
Servers
Software development
Supervision
Universal Serial Bus
User interface
laser–plasma acceleration
high-power laser experiments
data processing
online diagnostics
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Summary:The Centre for Advanced Laser Applications in Garching, Germany, is home to the ATLAS-3000 multi-petawatt laser, dedicated to research on laser particle acceleration and its applications. A control system based on Tango Controls is implemented for both the laser and four experimental areas. The device server approach features high modularity, which, in addition to the hardware control, enables a quick extension of the system and allows for automated data acquisition of the laser parameters and experimental data for each laser shot. In this paper we present an overview of our implementation of the control system, as well as our advances in terms of experimental operation, online supervision and data processing. We also give an outlook on advanced experimental supervision and online data evaluation – where the data can be processed in a pipeline – which is being developed on the basis of this infrastructure.
ISSN:2095-4719
2052-3289
DOI:10.1017/hpl.2023.17