Oosterbeek J W, Bürger A, Westerhof E, de Baar M R, van den Berg M A, Bongers W A, Graswinckel M F, Hennen B A, Kruijt O G, Thoen J, Heidinger R, Korsholm S B, Leipold F, Nielsen S K
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Energieforschung-Plasmaphysik,Association EURATOM-FZJ, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
Rev Sci Instrum. 2008 Sep;79(9):093503. doi: 10.1063/1.2976665.
An electron cyclotron emission (ECE) receiver inside the electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) transmission line has been brought into operation. The ECE is extracted by placing a quartz plate acting as a Fabry-Perot interferometer under an angle inside the electron cyclotron wave (ECW) beam. ECE measurements are obtained during high power ECRH operation. This demonstrates the successful operation of the diagnostic and, in particular, a sufficient suppression of the gyrotron component preventing it from interfering with ECE measurements. When integrated into a feedback system for the control of plasma instabilities this line-of-sight ECE diagnostic removes the need to localize the instabilities in absolute coordinates.
