Tomographic imaging system for measuring impurity line emission in a field-reversed configuration
- University of California, Irvine, California 92697 (United States)
A 16 chord optical tomography system has been developed and implemented in the flux coil generated-field reversed configuration (FRC). The chords are arranged in two fans of eight, which cover {approx}35% of the vessel area at the midplane. Each illuminate separate photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) which are fitted with narrow band-pass filters. In this case, filters are centered at 434.8 nm to measure emission from singly ionized argon. PMT crosstalk is negligible. Background noise due to electron radiation and H{sub {gamma}} line radiation is <10% of argon emission. The spatial resolution of the reconstruction is 1.5 cm. Argon is introduced using a puff valve and tube designed to impart the gas into the system as the FRC is forming. Reconstruction of experimental data results in time-dependent, 2D emissivity profiles of the impurity ions. Analysis of these data show radial, cross-field diffusion to be in the range of 10-10{sup 3} m{sup 2}/s during FRC equilibrium.
- OSTI ID:
- 22093947
- Journal Information:
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 83, Issue 10; Other Information: (c) 2012 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0034-6748
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARGON
BACKGROUND NOISE
DIFFUSION
EMISSION
EMISSIVITY
EQUILIBRIUM
FIELD-REVERSED THETA PINCH DEVICES
IONIZATION
PHOTOMULTIPLIERS
PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
PLASMA IMPURITIES
REVERSED-FIELD PINCH DEVICES
REVERSE-FIELD PINCH
SPATIAL RESOLUTION
TIME DEPENDENCE
TOMOGRAPHY