The new infrared imaging system on Alcator C-Mod
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
- MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
A new infrared imaging system has been installed on Alcator C-Mod. This system uses an Amber Radiance 1 IR video camera (filtered to the 4.2{endash}4.4 {mu}m band) to view a 30 cm{times}30 cm region of the lower divertor from above by means of a re-entrant 5-m long ZnSe based periscope. Capture of the standard 30 Hz video frames (8-bit) and camera control are performed remotely over fiber optic links by a Windows 95 PC, using a MuTech MV-1000 video grabber board. Plans are under way to directly capture the 60 Hz, 12-bit, 256{times}256 pixel images using a digital video camera interface with a fiber optic link from EDT (Beaverton, Oregon). Preliminary results show that during nondisruptive discharges no substantial surface temperature increase is observed on the upper sections of the divertor, with the exception of {open_quotes}hot spots,{close_quotes} although occasionally, increased heating in toroidal bands is seen. Bands can also be observed after disruptions that result in a downward movement of the plasma. {copyright} {ital 1999 American Institute of Physics.}
- OSTI ID:
- 295648
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-980605-; ISSN 0034-6748; TRN: 99:001834
- Journal Information:
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 70, Issue 1; Conference: 12. topical conference on high-temperature plasma diagnostics, Princeton, NJ (United States), 7-11 Jun 1998; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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