CHAPTER 1 - SYSTEM OPERATIONLSM 880 Left Tool Area and Hardware Control Tools ZEISS10/2014 V_01 000000-2071-464 775.2.5 Setup Manager – LaserOpen (and close) the Laser tool (Fig. 86) (onlyavailable when the Show all tools check box isticked) by clicking the Laser tab in the SetupManager tool group.Lasers are listed with their Laser name, their Laserlines (nm) and their Power state. Lasers availablefor ELYRA have the extension (Elyra) in theirname. Select the power state from the power stateswitch box. It shows the state of the laser: On, Offor Standby. Standby mode is available for somelasers. To activate a laser select On or Standby toswitch the laser on for immediate use or for warmup, respectively. A laser that is in Standby willautomatically go to On state, when in use and goback to Standby, when not in useThe Argon laserand Ti:Sa lasers are not set to Standby when not inuse, they have to be set to Standby deliberately.Lasers with no switch button, like the HeNe laser,will be switched on automatically after softwarestart.The Laser Properties panel displays the currentwavelength, status, mode (ps or cw if applicable),tube current (Argon laser) and power (Argon andTi:Sa laser).When exiting the Software, the Laser Off panelwill be displayed - unless the checkbox Lasers offon exit in Maintain / Systems Options /Hardware is not ticked - showing the currentpower state of the lasers (Fig. 87). The user has thepossibility to manually switch off still active lasersbefore the software closes. In case the status ON isnot changed, lasers are set into standby mode ifapplicable. Lasers without power status areswitched off. The shutter of Ti:Sa lasers will alwaysbe closed when the software is shut down.After switching on the lasers in the lasercontrol window and their status isdisplayed as ready (On) the system can beused for imaging. However, forquantitative imaging it is recommendedto let the system warm up for up to 2hours.Please bear in mind that a cooling phaseof at least 5 minutes is required betweenswitching off the laser via the softwareand switching off the entire system viathe power remote switch.Fig. 86 Laser toolFig. 87 Laser Off panel
