[Shalika, Marc]

Overview: The Labview interface for the temperature controller, voltage controller, and polarimeter camera has been completed. 

1. For temperature controller: We can switch on/off, enable/disable channel, set temperature, choose the sensor type to be interfaced, and various other kinds of features can be accessed. (see Fig 1 and Pdf 1 attached for the front and back panels respectively)

2. Fopr voltage controller: we can switch on/off, enable/disable, set desired voltage, and sweep for any number of iterations desired. For the birefringence characterization of the KAGRA size sample, we might need more than 100000 iterations. and it can be done easily. (see Fig 2 and Pdf 3 attached for the front and back panels respectively)

3. For the Camera, we can see the azimuth, ellipticity, and power of the beam incident. (We would like to integrate the Poincare sphere, and visuals of the Polarization axis to make it better and the same as Thorlabs software. (see Fig 3 and Pdf 3 attached for the front and back panels respectively)

For all the 3 Interfaces, almost all the features offered by Thorlabs software have been integrated with the new labview interface. 

Next Step:

1. Integrate all the VI in one. Also, the GUI can be resized or components can be moved for feasibility during the experiment. 

2. Try to take real-time measurements.