CHARACTERISTICS OF DIAMOND WINDOWS ON THE 1 MW, 110 GHz GYROTRON SYSTEMS ON THE DIII-D TOKAMAK
Diamond disks made using the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique are now in common use as gyrotron output windows. The low millimeter wave losses and excellent thermal conductivity of diamond have made it possible to use such windows in gyrotrons with {approx}1 MW output power and pulse length up to and greater than 10 s. A ubiquitous characteristic of diamond gyrotron windows is the presence of apparent hot spots in the infrared images registered during rf pulses. Many of these spots are co-located with bright points seen in visible video images. The spots do not seem to compromise the integrity of the windows. Analysis of the infrared observations on several different gyrotrons operating at the DIII-D tokamak are reported.
- Research Organization:
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-99ER54463
- OSTI ID:
- 805250
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves, San Diego, CA (US), 09/22/2002--09/26/2002; Other Information: This is a preprint of a paper to be presented at the Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves, September 22-26, 2002, San Diego, California, and to be published in the Proceedings.; PBD: 1 Aug 2002
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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