Thorlabs Beam Profiler Application - Readme
Use this software to operate Thorlabs BC100 Series Camera Beam Profiler
and Thorlabs BP100 / BP200 Slit Beam Profiler Instruments.

Note:
This software comes with additional software packages:
	- NI VISA runtime engine (http://www.ni.com/visa)

License:
This software is copyright Ó 2007-2013, Thorlabs GmbH. 
For license details please see file License.rtf.
Qt is licensed under the LGPL. Please see file LGPL-2.1.txt

Supported platforms:
This software was verified with the following platforms:
	- Windows XP (32-bit version)
	- Windows Vista (32-bit version)
	- Windows Vista x64 Edition (64-bit version)
	- Windows 7 (32-bit version)
	- Windows 7 x64 Edition (64-bit version)
	- Windows 8 (32-bit version)
	- Windows 8 x64 Edition (64-bit version)

Changelog:
V1.0	Feb-13-2009
	Initial release.

V1.1	Mar-04-2009
	C++ sample added

V1.2 	Mar-05-2009
	- C++ sample improved
	- Manual updated

V2.0	Nov-16-2009
	- Measurement over time
	- Advanced Calculation Results
	- Performance improved
	- Pass / Fail Analyse
	- Distance Measurement
	- Laguages English, German and Chinese

V2.1	Jan-08-2010
	- Increasing or decreasing the ROI by 20% in 2D Projection Window
	- Maximum deviation of centroid with indicators in 2D Projection window
	- Different reference points of beam poisition stability
	- German help file
	- Window with live stream without calculations
	- User defined path to log file

V2.2	Jan-29-2010
	- Current date and time in the symbol bar
	- Quick access tool bar 
	- Cursor in the X-Y-profiles can be hidden
	- Unit of power calibration expanded with mW
	- Calculation results are grouped 
	- Symbol toolbar is separated in window, datetime and main symbol toolbar.

V3.0	Jun-14-2010
	- M² measurement
	- Signed installation packet and application
	- Image export in grayscale

V4.0	Feb-23-2011
	- Integration of Slit Beam Profiler
	- Exchange of DirectX with OpenGL
	- Non modal settings dialogs
	- Redesign of diagrams
	- Sequential saving of diagrams and data

V5.0	Jan-21-2013
	All windows:
	-button to hide the toolbar and oll other graphic items from the window to maximize the diagram
	-menu entries in the menu "view" to show and hide all toolbars and GUI elements from all windows.

	Plot window:
	-Bessel Fit button in the profile window
	-Bessel Fit in the calculation result window

	Time plot windows:
	-Save data from time plot diagrams
	-Start time of measurement in time plots diagrams
	-x axis with time and not count of seconds
	-Clear the data of all windows with a clear button from the toolbar of the time plot windows

	Beam Stability window:
	-indikator of the measurement time
	-green curves of the mean of the 100 latest measurements
	-save the data from the beam stability diagram
	-clear all data of all windows with a button from the toolbar of the beam stability window
	-settings moved to a settings dialog which can be opened via a button from the toolbar
	-settings expanded with the plot method and the plot interval

	Environment Measurement:
	-new window "envorironment data" created which plots the temperature and centroid over time
	-connected temperature sensors are listed in the calculation results
	-the settings of the temperature sensor are shown in tabs in the device settings dialog
	-temperature unit added to application settings
	-show/hide the temperature from the calculation results window

	Symbolbar:
	-button added to reset the application settings to default values
	-new symbol bar with the three alignment windows
	-thorlabs logo inserted with link to thorlabs website

	Software Updater:
	-with the start of the application a dialog appears if a newer version on the tholabs website has been detected.
	-dialog "Check for updates" in the menu "help" openes this dialog manually.

	Three new alignment windows:
	-manual vergence measurement
	-tuning view
	-beam overlapping

	Application settings:
	-center the calculation area to centroid position
	-for multi slit beam profiler: real rolling averaging

	Multi Slit Beam Profiler supported.

	Firmware version of the instrument added to device settings dialog

V5.1	Feb-17-2014:
	- sequential saving for the raw data export
	- native BC1 driver to operate the device in C/C++, LabView and .Net
	- automatic elliptical calculation area
	- ISO auto calculation area for BC instruments
	- supports BP209-IR2 instruments
	- Firmware update of the BC106 from 13.12 to 13.20 or from 13.13 to 13.21