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High Speed Sub-GHz Spectrometer for Brillouin Scattering Analysis
Published on: December 22, 2015
First experimental tests of powerful 250 GHz gyrotron for future fusion research and collective Thomson scattering
G G Denisov1, M Yu Glyavin1, A P Fokin1
1Institute of Applied Physics Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Abstract:
A 250 GHz continuous-wave (CW) gyrotron has been developed at the IAP RAS jointly with GYCOM Ltd., as a prototype of the microwave source for the envisaged prospective nuclear fusion power plants (DEMO). The main applications of such a tube are electron cyclotron resonance heating and electron cyclotron resonance current drive of magnetically confined plasma as well as its diagnostics based on collective Thomson scattering in various reactors for controlled thermonuclear fusion (e.g., tokamaks and stellarators). The results of the preliminary experimental tests in a pulsed mode of operation are presented. The microwave power of up to 330 kW with an efficiency of 30% without collector depression was obtained. At an accelerating voltage of 55 kV and an electron beam current of 12.5 A (which corresponds to the design parameters for CW operation), the measured output power was about 200 kW. The TEM00 mode content evaluated at the tube output is not less than 98.6%.
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