Swansea University (UK) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (GER)

DepolTools
- an OpenSource software package

Evaluation Method for Raman Depolarization Measurements including Geometrical Effects and Polarization Aberrations

Application & Classes

Main files

Depol-analysis.exe Executeable
Depol-analysis.cxx Source code of the main programme

Classes

The following classes consists of .h and .cxx files

TRamanIntensity Class containing line strength calculation including geometry and polarization aberrations
TGaussianBeam Class containing optional use of Gaussian beams
ConfigFile Class for the use of ConfigFiles by Richard J. Wagner (2004) wagnerr@umich.edu

Installation (Linux)

The Depol-Tools are written in C++ and use parts of the libraries from "ROOT - A Data Analysis Framework" This is framework was predominantly developed for the use under Linux. The compilation on Windows is not recommended not straight forward, thus no Windows version is supported.

It is recommended to build the programme on your machine although we are providing a pre-compiled version.

  1. Make sure that you have ROOT installed on your machine. The ROOT's source can be downloaded from here and the installation guide is found here.
  2. Change to the DepolTools main directory and enter
    make
    By this a file called Depol-analysis.exe shall be created.

Usage (Linux)

Create a configuration file (config-file) with all relevant entries (see documentation for further information on the generation of config-files). Then type

./Depol-Analysis.exe config-filename

to execute the programme where config-filename is the filename of the previously defined config-file. The destination of the result-files have to stated in the config-file.

Copyright & License

The source code and the executeable contained in the "Depol-Tools" are free software and licensed under terms of the GNU General Public License.

How to cite?

The software package is a supplement of a publication in Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. If you have used this software for scientific or other purposes the please cite the following paper: M. Schlösser, T. M. James, S. Fischer, R. J. Lewis, B. Bornschein, and H. H. Telle, "Evaluation Method for Raman Depolarization Measurements including Geometrical Effects and Polarization Aberrations", Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 2012 (Volume and Issue will be supplied soon!)

Software archive

The latest version of the Depol-Tool package can be obtained from the sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/depoltools/

Change log

30. July 2012

- First release of publication - Missing: tutorial; sample file; documentation