Multi-channel far-infrared HL-2A interferometer-polarimeter
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Published on: September 5, 2019
1Southwestern Institute of Physics, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China. zhouy@swip.ac.cn
Abstract:
An HL-2A interferometer is upgraded to a multi-channel interferometer∕polarimeter, which includes four chords for the interferometer and four chords for the polarimeter. The far-infrared lasers (at λ = 432.5 μm and 30 mW power) are used to probe plasmas horizontally in the midplane of HL-2A. A conventional heterodyne technique is used for the interferometer. Two counter-rotating circularly polarized waves are used to measure the Faraday rotation effect. A fast-phase comparator with temporal resolution of 1 μs and phase resolution 0.1° is developed. Further, the distortion of the polarization caused by the beam-splitters and the other optical components is also investigated.
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