Topic Guides

These guides cover a particular topic in depth, coving material useful to users and beamline staff.

These guides do not cover the individual beamlines thoroughly.

Contents:

• Area Detectors and Cameras
• Asymmetric Analyzer
• Making Changes to Haven and Contributing
  • From a Development Environment
  • From the Beamline
  • Design Defense
• Instrument Configuration
  • Motivation
  • Device Definitions
  • Checking Configuration
  • Example Configuration
• Defining a New Motor
• Energy Scans (XAFS)
  • xafs_scan() for Straight-Forward XAFS Scans
  • Defining Scans in K-Space
  • energy_scan() for More Sophisticated Scans
  • Changing Detectors or Positioners
• Exporting Data
  • Installing Mime-Types
• Fluorescence Detectors
  • Specifying Detectors in Configuration
  • Adding NDAttributes (Xspress3)
  • Why can’t I…
• Fly Scanning
  • Modes of Fly Scanning
  • Data Streams
  • Plans for Fly-Scanning
  • Aerotech-Stage
• Instrument Registry for Looking Up Components
  • Looking Up Registered Devices/Components
  • Looking Up Sub-Components by Dot-Notation
  • Registering Individual Devices
  • Registering Device Classes
  • Creating Your Own Registry
  • Design Defense
• Shutters and Filters
  • Automatic Shutter Control
  • Personnel Safety System (PSS) Shutters
  • XIA PFCU-4 Filter Bank
• Motor Positions
  • Saving a Motor Position
  • Viewing Saved Motor Positions
  • Recalling a Saved Motor Position
  • The MotorPosition Data Model