Optical Design of ECEI Diagnostic System for HT-T Tokamak

Electron cyclotron emission imaging system in the frequency range of 95 GHz -125 GHz is going to be constructed for a two-dimensional diagnosis of the electron temperature profiles and fluctuations on the HT-7 Tokamak. The optical design for the ECEI diagnostic system is completed. Because of the superconducting technology used in HT-7, the vacuum chamber is rather thick (630 mm), the height of the horizontal windows is limited (maximum 450 mm), which constrains greatly the ECE imaging Gaussian beam that passing through the windows. We here comes to make a design compromise between the number of the beams that can pass through the windows and the spatial resolution (around 1.1 cm). We also find that due to the field curvature of the optical system, the gaussian beams of edge channels are always overlapped. To flatten the field curvature, it is needed to insert a concave made of a material with a low refractive index (compared with the one used in the convex). But the suitable material has not been avail     

Numerical Simulation of the Thomson Scattering Experiment Performed with 0.351 μm Laser-Produced Aluminum Plasmas

The evolutions of the electron temperatures of Muminum plasmas produced with 0.351 μm laser are simulated by means of one-dimensional hydrodynamic code. The simulations show that the plasma geometry has strong influence on the electron temperature＇s evolution while the effect of the flux limiter is not so significant. The simulations are in good agreement with the experiments only at some spatial points. A full comparison between the simulations and experiments indicates that the one-dimensional code is not accurate enough to characterize the laser-produced plasmas. A post-processor code based on the hydro code is developed to generate the streak image of the Thomson scattering spectra, which can be directly compared with the experimental data.     

研究液体表面特性的激光动态光散射系统

本文介绍了我们已建立的用微机控制的激光散射实验系统,并用已知常规液体及低介面张力的二相微乳体系样品测量,实验结果与预期相符。     

A Non-neutral Plasma Device: Electron Beam Penning Trap

1.IntroductionPenningtrapshavebeenwidelyusedtotrapchargedparticles,suchaselectronsorions,forstudyonthefundamentalpropertiesofparticles,andthetransportandequilibriumpropertiesofnon--neutralplasmas[1-4].InaPenningtrap,auniformaxialmagneticfieldprovidesradialconfinement,whiletheelectricfieldbetweentheelectrodesprovidesaxialone.Thetrapcanconfineasmallnumberofchargedparticlesforverylongtime.However,becauseoftheself-electricfieldeffect,themaximumdensityofnonneutralplasma(electron)radicallyconfinedb…     

A 57-Pin Langmuir Probe Array for Two-Dimensional Diagnosis in the Toroidal KT-5D Steady-State Plasma

In this article, the design idea of a 57-pin Langmuir probe array is presented, together with some experimental results. The manufacture technique of the probe array is discussed. Two-dimensional distributions of the plasma density, the floating potential and their fluctuations in the poloidal cross section are obtained. The blobs, which move radially and poloidally, cause great particle and energy transport. The charge neutralization by the poloidal movement of particles greatly decreases the vertical electric field in the helimak plasma. This leads to a confinement time which is two orders of magnitude larger than the theoretical prediction.     

利用双等离子体装置产生非均匀等离子体

在双等离子体实验装置中,采用单边放电的方式在源区产生等离子体,通过扩散和电子碰撞电离可以在实验区产生密度分布不均匀的等离子体.利用静电探针测量了实验区等离子体的状态参数及其空间分布,结果显示:该装置可以提供一个径向相当宽范围内密度基本均匀,轴向密度分布指数衰减的等离子体环境,其不均匀性标长与放电气压成反比.该装置可以提供不均匀性可控的非均匀等离子体源.     

One-Dimensional Vertical Electron Cyclotron Emission Imaging Diagnostic for HT-7 Tokamak

At the first stage of the electron cyclotron emission imaging （ECEI） diagnostic project on HT-7, a 16-channel vertical-resolved ECEI diagnostic has been developed and installed on HT-7 tokamak to measure electron cyclotron emission with a temporal resolution of 0.5 usec. The system works at a fixed frequency of 97.5 GHz. The sample volumes of the system are aligned vertically with a vertical channel spacing of 11 mm, and can be shifted across the plasma cross-section by varying the toroidal magnetic field. The high spatial resolution of the system is achieved by utilizing a low-cost linear mixer/receiver array and an optical imaging system. The focus location may be shifted horizontally when translating one of the optical imaging elements. The details of the system design and laboratory testing of the ECEI optics are presented together with the preliminary experimental results.     

Operation Control of a High-resolution Plasma Imaging System in KT5D Torus

1 IntroductionThe light imaging is a very useful tool in monitor-ing plasma discharges with real two dimensional reso-lution, comparing with many commonly used diagnos-tic techniques such as various Langmuir probes, whichmay have good spatial resolution based on point topoint measurements, or chord to chord measurements.TV camera with CCD sensor is one of the imagingtools being used [1~5], however conventional TV cam-eras are usually difficult to program and with ratherlow temporal (typicall…     

Optical Design of ECEI Diagnostic System for HT-7 Tokamak

Electron cyclotron emission imaging system in the frequency range of 95 GHz ～125 GHz is going to be constructed for a two-dimensional diagnosis of the electron temperature profiles and fluctuations on the HT-7 Tokamak. The optical design for the ECEI diagnostic system is completed. Because of the superconducting technology used in HT-7, the vacuum chamber is rather thick (630 mm), the height of the horizontal windows is limited (maximum 450 mm), which constrains greatly the ECE imaging Gaussian beam that passing through the windows. We here comes to make a design compromise between the number of the beams that can pass through the windows and the spatial resolution (around 1.1 cm). We also find that due to the field curvature of the optical system, the gaussian beams of edge channels are always overlapped. To flatten the field curvature, it is needed to insert a concave made of a material with a low refractive index (compared with the one used in the convex). But the suitable material has not been available so far, therefore the deterioration of the resolution in some channels (e.g. the edge channels) is acceptable.     

Steady-State Plasmas in KT5D Magnetized Torus

Steady-state plasma generated by electron cyclotron resonance （ECR） wave in the KT5D magnetized torus was studied using a fast high-resolution camera and Langmuir probes. It was found that both the discharge patterns taken by the camera and the plasma parameters measured by the probes were very sensitive to the working gas pressure and the magnetic configuration of the torus both without and with vertical fields. There existed fast vertical motion of the plasma. Tentative discussion is presented about the observed phenomena such as the bright resonance layer at a high gas pressure and the wave absorption mechanism at a low pressure. Further explanations should be found.