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Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 5, S1038 (2010)

Regular Articles


Collective Thomson Scattering Study Using Gyrotron in LHD
Shin KUBO, Masaki NISHIURA, Kenji TANAKA, Takashi SHIMOZUMA, Yoshinori TATEMATSU1), Takashi NOTAKE1), Teruo SAITO1), Yasuo YOSHIMURA, Hiroe IGAMI, Hiromi TAKAHASHI and Namiko TAMURA2)
National Institute for Fusion Science,322-6 Oroshi-cho, Toki 509-5292, Japan
1)
Research Center for Development of FIR Region, University of Fukui, Fukui 910-8507, Japan
2)
Department of Energy Science and Technology, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8463, Japan
(Received 16 January 2009 / Accepted 22 July 2009 / Published 26 March 2010)

Abstract

The collective Thomson scattering (CTS) is one of the most promising methods for evaluating the ion velocity distribution function. The study of CTS diagnostic has been started utilizing the gyrotron and antenna/transmission systems installed in LHD for high power local electron heating. One of the high power gyrotrons at 77 GHz is selected as a probing power source and a set of highly focused antenna system is used for the probing and receiving antenna. The specific feature of the system, receiver design are described and preliminary data obtained in for ECRH plasma in LHD are discussed.


Keywords

collective Thomson scattering, ECRH, ECE, gyrotron, Gaussian beam, ion temperature

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.5.S1038


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This paper may be cited as follows:

Shin KUBO, Masaki NISHIURA, Kenji TANAKA, Takashi SHIMOZUMA, Yoshinori TATEMATSU, Takashi NOTAKE, Teruo SAITO, Yasuo YOSHIMURA, Hiroe IGAMI, Hiromi TAKAHASHI and Namiko TAMURA, Plasma Fusion Res. 5, S1038 (2010).