LULI, Palaiseaux, France
Apollon, LULI2000 and HERA are three Research Infrastructures of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), École polytechnique (X), Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA) and Sorbonne University (SU). Past-commissioning phase, Apollon is a four beam laser, multi-petawatt laser facility fitted with instrumentation technologies on the cutting edge with two experimental areas (short–up to 1m–and long focal–up to 20m, 32m in the future). To monitor the laser beam characteristics through the interaction chambers, more than 500 devices are distributed in the facility and controlled through a Tango bus. This poster focuses on two linked software components: DevPylon and DevVimba. Each affected to a type of cameras: Basler via PyPylon wrapper interface of Pylon Software suite and Prosilica via Vimba SDK library, respectively. These two Tango devices are Python scripts constructed and generated via POGO. They offer a specific way to monitor more than 100 CCD cameras in the facility at an image acquisition and display rate up to 10Hz for a maximum of 300-shot at 1-minute rate per day and on an always-ON mode throughout the day.
LULI, Palaiseaux, France
Apollon, LULI2000 and HERA are three Research Infrastructures of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), École polytechnique (X), Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA) and Sorbonne University (SU). Now in past-commissioning phase, Apollon is a four beam laser, multi-petawatt laser facility fitted with instrumentation technologies on the cutting edge with two experimental areas (short–up to 1m–and long focal–up to 20m, 32m in the future). To monitor the laser beam characteristics through the interaction chambers, more than 300 devices are distributed in the facility and controlled through a Tango bus. This poster presents primarily a synthetic view of the Apollon facility, from network to hardware and from virtual machines to software under Tango architecture. We can here have an overview of the different types of devices which are running on the facility and some GUIs developed with the exploitation team to insure the best possible way of running the lasers. While developments are still currently under work for this facility, upgrading the systems of LULI2000 from one side and HERA from the other side are underway by the Control-Command & Supervision team and would follow the same specifications to offer shared protocols and knowledge.