Start bumps with the cantilever _off_ the surface.
authorW. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:45:24 +0000 (09:45 -0500)
committerW. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:45:24 +0000 (09:45 -0500)
commitaf7a483b5986980a78ca7f2562b6138e185a9397
treecdfb6f4f05a39d7840c63aecb582a44df356b990
parentcd1c97c2dbca91d9591761fba2b441f5143e2377
Start bumps with the cantilever _off_ the surface.

Photodiode sensitivity (and thus, bump slope) decreases as the
zero-deflection photodiode input moves away from zero Volts.  In order
to mitigate the effect of this on our calibration, we need to keep
track of the zero-deflection signal.  By starting our bump off the
surface, our bumps should always start and end in the zero-deflection
regime.

This will make analysis a bit more complicated though.  I'll get to
that next.
calibcant/calibrate.py