You have a plain vanilla PyTables store. So these are actually pretty easy to read (and don't need pandas), but this will show you how you can read them (as numpy arrays).
with pd.get_store('test.h5') as store:
data = store.root.exp_root.Kerr.DoublePulse2D.SuperDuperScan_V2_00001/scan_data/actuator_1_1.read()
docs are here.
This just grabs the PyTables root node and reads the data in. This is in CArray
format, and is a simple array.
HDFStore
will be able to read plain-vanilla PyTables Table
objects (with out the meta data), but simple enough to just read in arrays.