A linear systems description of the CO{sub 2} laser based tangential imaging system
We demonstrate that the phase variation produced by the projection of the density fluctuations onto a laser beam that is aligned tangent to the magnetic field lines in a toroidal plasma, is in fact a convolution of the density fluctuation profile in the tangency plane with a shift-invariant point spread function. Thus a spatial filter can be used to invert the corresponding transfer function to produce an undistorted image of the plasma density fluctuations at the tangency plane. Numerical simulations demonstrate that a spatial filter consisting of a simple and versatile step-function form of a Zernike phase mirror, will recover a reasonably accurate image of the fluctuations.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Plasma Physics Lab.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03073
- OSTI ID:
- 10111078
- Report Number(s):
- PPPL--3027; ON: DE95006235
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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