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spectroscopy experiments: set central frequency and frequency range as input parameters #1380

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The current implementations of resonator spectroscopy, resonator punchout and qubit spectroscopy perform a scan around a central frequency. This frequency is determined from stored calibration parameters:

  • spectroscopy: bare_frequency if power_level='high' or dressed_frequency if power_level='low' from calibration.json
  • punchout: probe frequency from parameters.json.

The documentation just mentions this as being the "readout frequency", so understanding what happens even requires looking at the code.

This introduces some issues:

  1. experiments used to determine frequencies depend on those same frequencies
  2. reduced flexibility: for example if the user is iterating and wants the center frequency to be in the middle between bare and dressed frequencies in a punchout experiment
  3. lack of transparency, see e.g. how the central frequency is determined for punchout.

proposed solution: take the central value or min/max range as input parameters.

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