Soft-x-ray camera for internal shape and current-density measurements on a noncircular tokamak

Journal Article · Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988 · Rev. Sci. Instrum.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1140074· OSTI ID:6949805

Fonck, R J; Jaehnig, K P; Powell, E T; Reusch, M; Roney, P; Simon, M P

A two-dimensional, tangentially viewing, soft-x-ray pinhole camera has been fabricated to provide internal shape measurements on the PBX-M tokamak. It consists of a scintillator at the focal plane of a foil-filtered pinhole camera, which is, in turn, fiber-optically coupled to an intensified framing video camera (..delta..tgreater than or equal to3 ms). Automated data acquisition is performed on a stand-alone image processing system, and data archiving and retrieval take place on an optical disk video recorder. The derivation of the poloidal emission distribution from the measured image is done by fitting to model profiles.

• Research Organization: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08543
• OSTI ID: 6949805
• Journal Information: Rev. Sci. Instrum.; (United States), Vol. 59:8
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
PBX DEVICES
PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
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SOFT X RADIATION
SOLID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS
TELEVISION CAMERAS
CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES
COMPUTERS
CONTROL SYSTEMS
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
IONIZING RADIATIONS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
RADIATION DETECTORS
RADIATIONS
SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
TOKAMAK DEVICES
X RADIATION
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