Get the instrument description and EEPROM data

Model, configuration, serial number, and calibration data stored in the EEPROM of an Ocean Optics spectrometer are retrieved and returned in a list.

Usage

get_oo_descriptor(
  w,
  sr.index = 0L,
  ch.index = 0L,
  area = NULL,
  diff.type = NULL
)

Arguments

w

an open Wrapper object from OmniDriver.

sr.index

an index to address the spectrometer for the time being not exported.

ch.index

an index to address the channel in a spectrometer with more than one channel.

area

numeric Passed to o_calib2irrad_mult().

diff.type

character Passed to o_calib2irrad_mult().

Value

a list

Details

Instrument descriptors are "list" objects with fields describing features of a spectrometer that remain consistent across data acquisition events, including calibration data, entrance optics, serial number, optical configuration, etc. Some of these field can be obtained from the EEPROM inside Ocean Optics spectrometers.

One and only one of area or diff.type is needed if an irradiance calibration stored in the EEPROM is to be retrieved. If both are null, as by default, the irradiance calibration factors will not be retrieved even if present in the EEPROM.

See also

Other Functions and methods related to instrument descriptors: set_descriptor_bad_pixs(), set_descriptor_entrance_optics(), set_descriptor_integ_time(), set_descriptor_irrad_mult(), set_descriptor_nl(), set_descriptor_wl()