Welcome to the Open Reflectometry Project!
Generating energy from nuclear fusion reactions is crucial for the future of humankind! These reactions occur in a plasma contained inside a machine using complex magnetic fields. We are able to understand the structure, the position, and the behaviour of the plasma using electromagnetic waves and a technique called reflectometry. However, processing the raw reflectometry data is complicated and it may take months for a researcher to make sense of it.
The Open Reflectometry Project aims to make it easy to access and handle reflectometry data by providing an open source Python library and several examples of raw data that you are free to use!
First of all you should install our scikit-reflectometry package. You can do this using pip
pip install scikit-reflectometry
or directly from the source code
git clone https://github.com/OpenReflectometry/scikit-reflectometry.git
cd scikit-reflectometry
python python setup.py install
We're a team of physicists and engineers working towards making nuclear fusion a reality and we need your help!
If you are interested and want to help us with code, raw data, or an idea for an example or tutorial, please read our Contributing and Code of Conduct guides.