Using_pulse_sequence

Beside outputting fixed frequency RF signal, the main functionality of the Pulser is to generate a pulse sequence to do experiment in atomic physics. Usually, experiment in atomic physics consists of a sequence of some switching of laser light by modulation of RF signal driving the AOMs and/or controlling mechanical shutters. The sequence is repeated many times to build-up enough statistics in the data acquired from the experiment. So in this tutorial, we will see how we can program pulse sequences to the Pulser.

Programming a pulse sequence

We show here a simple example that allows us to program a pulse sequence to the system and run it. I show here a python script that does exactly that. We will then go through line-by-line later.

from labrad.units import WithUnit
from treedict import TreeDict
import labrad