This is a collection of analysis and simulation scripts developed to facilitate the Optical Levitation Project at Stanford University, under the direction of Professor Giorgio Gratta. Although some of the code is generally applicable to different analysis tasks, much of it depends heavily on data files acquired for the project, and the content and structure inherent to those data files.

To install system-wide, noting the path to the src since no wheels exist on PyPI, use:

pip install ./opt_lev_analysis

If you intend to edit the code and want the import calls to reflect those changes, install in developer mode:

pip install -e opt_lev_analysis

If you don't want a global installation (i.e. if multiple users will engage with and/or edit this library) and you don't want to use venv or some equivalent:

pip install -e opt_lev_analysis --user

where pip is pip3 for Python3 (tested on Python 3.6.9). Be careful NOT to use sudo, as the latter two installations make a file easy-install.pth in either the global or the local directory lib/python3.X/site-packages/easy-install.pth, and sudo will mess up the permissions of this file such that uninstalling is very complicated.

If installed without sudo as instructed, uninstalling should be as easy as:

pip uninstall opt_lev_analysis

If installed using sudo and with the -e and --user flags, the above uninstall will encounter an error.

Navigate to the file lib/python3.X/site-packages/easy-install.pth, located either at /usr/local/ or ~/.local and ensure there is no entry for opt_lev_analysis.

The package is distributed under an open license (see LICENSE file for information).

opt_lev_controls - A companion library used on the data acquision computers associated to the project.

Charles Blakemore (chas.blakemore@gmail.com), Alexander Rider, David Moore