Thorlabs PAX1000 Application + TLPAX VXIPnP Instrument Driver - Readme
The Thorlabs PAX1000 Application is used to operate Thorlabs PAX1000 Instruments.

The TLPAX driver installs to into your system's VXIPnP directory. This is typically 'C:\Program Files\IVI Foundation\VISA\WinNT' or '\C:\VXIPNP\WinNT'. The instrument driver package was created with National Instruments LabWindows/CVI 12.0.1. The LabVIEW version of this driver was generated with LabVIEW Interface Generator for LabWindows/CVI Instrument Drivers 2.0 in conjunction with LabVIEW 8.5. The .NET managed library was generated by the National Instruments Measurement Studio plug-in for Visual Studio.NET 2015.

Note:
This software comes with additional software packages:
	- NI VISA runtime engine		http://www.ni.com/visa
	- NI CVI runtime engine		http://www.ni.com/cvi
	- MS .Net Framework		http://www.microsoft.com/net

License:
The PAX1000 Application software is copyright Ó 2025, Thorlabs GmbH. For license details please see file License.rtf in the applications installation directory.
The TLPAX instrument driver libraries are copyright Ó 2025, Thorlabs GmbH.

Supported Platforms:
This software was verified with the following platforms: 
 	- Windows 10          32-bit and 64-bit version
    - Windows 11          64-bit version

PAX1000 Application Change log:

V1.7        Jul-2025:
            New features:
	   - Point of view setting.
V1.6       Aug-2024
	   New features:
            - Support for fast measurement for devices with firmware 1.2.0
            - Enable to open many instances of the appplication. 
	    (Autoconnect functionality is therefore disabled)
            - Save ER measurement data as .csv file.
V1.5        Jul-2023
	   New features:
            - Averaging setting from 1 to 40 samples.   
V1.4        Apr-2023
	   New features:
            - Display stoke parameters in ER measurement view and ER measurement protocol.   
             Bug Fix:
	   - 3D Sphere is not visible with some Intel graphic cards.(Fixed)     
V1.3        Oct-2022
	    New features:
-	Now is possible to navigate through measured points on the poincare sphere. The selected point data will be display on ellipse view. To select the point on the sphere the shift key has to be press. Live data can only be navigated on pause mode.
-	Circularity parameter is added to the table view. This is a measure how circularly polarised light is.
-	The firmware update tool is integrated in the PAX1000 software.
Bug Fix:
-	The actual maximal scan rate was not update correctly after the change of the measurement mode. (Fixed)

V1.2        Oct-2020
              - Default wavelength for PAX1000 metric devices is wrong. (Fixed)

V1.1	     Dec-2019	
                 -Phase-Difference was displayed radian and not degree. (Fixed)

V1.0	     Jun-29-2017	
                 Initial Release

TLPAX VXIpnp Instrument Driver Changelog:

V1.3   Dec-2024
       Change:
-	Starts device with exclusive lock.

V1.2   June.2024         
        New features:
-	New methods getFastScan and startetUp

V1.0	June-2017	Initial Release