Open Architecture Software Integration System (OASIS) for the Particle Beam Optics Laboratory (PBO LAB)

The particle beam optics laboratory, or PBO Labtrade, is a suite of software applications developed to support beamline design, accelerator operations, and personnel training. The software provides an intuitive and easy-to-use graphic user interface (GUI) that works with a variety of particle optics programs. The PBO Lab GUI is largely responsible for the popularity of this software suite, which is now used at more than ninety institutions throughout the world. Although PBO Lab greatly improves the human-machine interface for several popular optics programs, it has historically required a significant effort to incorporate additional optics programs into the software suite. The open architecture software integration system, or OASIStrade, provides an innovative framework that allows users to readily integrate their own optics programs into PBO Lab. This paper provides an overview of the OASIS framework and describes some of the work aimed at creating new PBO Lab modules using OASIS.