Multi-channel Doppler backscattering measurements in the C-2 field reversed configuration
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 (United States)
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697 (United States)
- Tri Alpha Energy, Inc., P.O. Box 7010, Rancho Santa Margarita, California 92688 (United States)
A versatile heterodyne Doppler Backscattering (DBS) system is used to measure density fluctuation levels (in the wavenumber range kρ{sub s} ≤ 50), and the toroidal E × B flow velocity in the C-2 Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC). Six tunable frequencies in three waveguide bands (26 GHz ≤ f ≤ 90 GHz) are launched using monostatic beam optics, via a quasi-optical beam combiner/polarizer and an adjustable parabolic focusing mirror (inside the vacuum enclosure) achieving Gaussian beam spot sizes of 3–5.5 cm at the X/O-mode cutoff. The DBS system covers plasma densities of 0.8 × 10{sup 13} ≤ n{sub e} ≤ 1 × 10{sup 14} cm{sup −3}, and provides access to the FRC core (up to the field null) and across the FRC separatrix into the scrape-off layer plasma.
- OSTI ID:
- 22308626
- Journal Information:
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 85, Issue 11; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0034-6748
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
BACKSCATTERING
BEAM OPTICS
DENSITY
DOPPLER EFFECT
ELECTRIC FIELDS
FIELD-REVERSED THETA PINCH DEVICES
FLOW RATE
FLUCTUATIONS
FOCUSING
GHZ RANGE
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MIRRORS
PLASMA DENSITY
PLASMA SCRAPE-OFF LAYER
TOROIDAL CONFIGURATION
WAVEGUIDES