Plasma and Fusion Research
Volume 2, S1093 (2007)
Regular Articles
- Kyoto Institute of technology, Department of Electronics, Matsugasaki, Kyoto 606-8585,Japan
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- National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Gifu 509-5292, Japan
Abstract
With a skillful probing system, both large negative space potential φs and low electron current Ip of helical nonneutral plasmas have been measured. For the φs measurement, a differential circuit with a high-voltage probe is employed. In order to prevent the signal from delaying due to the large output impedance of the high-voltage probe, an operational amplifier is used to reduce the output impedance to ideally zero. For the Ip measurement, an instrumentation amplifier is employed to precisely cancel the common-mode noise. In addition, to alleviate the thermal noise due to the large feedback resistance in the circuit, a trick of T-network resistance is utilized instead of the single large resistance. Furthermore, to cancel the significant ground loop current, the reference potential of the circuit is grounded across a small resistance (100Ω).
Keywords
helical nonneutral plasma, magnetic surface confinement, high-impedance emissive probe, large negative space potential, electrostatic probing system
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This paper may be cited as follows:
Y. YAMAMOTO, H. HIMURA, A. SANPEI, S. MASAMUNE, M. ISOBE, S. OKAMURA and K. MATSUOKA, Plasma Fusion Res. 2, S1093 (2007).