How to programmate an arbitrary waveform in LabView for a AFG3102C?

[Vissen]

I'm trying to send a LASER pulse which is controlled by the CH1 of my waveform generator. It's typically a 1us pulse, followed by a variable delay (from 300ns to 10us) and then another LASER pulse of 1us.

I fail to see how I could prog this in LabView without using an alternate program (i.e. Visual Basic).

I'm using LabView 10.

[Alex.T · Accepted solution]

LabVIEW is uber capable; especially at instrument control.

There's an instrument driver available for the AFG3102 provided on NI's website. You'd download this and use the library of Virtual Instruments (VIs) it comes with from within the LabVIEW Environment. Tutorials exist on how to do this. You can see that the libraries support GPIB/USB/Ethernet, so you'd have to use one of these protocols to connect to your device and then configure it from within your own LabVIEW VI; you can reference the 'Plug and Play' file on the Instrument Driver page first to see how the device is controlled within LabVIEW for an example application.