Elliott D B, Biewer T M, Boyle D P, Kaita R, Majeski R
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6169, USA.
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA.
Rev Sci Instrum. 2018 Oct;89(10):10D118. doi: 10.1063/1.5039368.
The Lithium Tokamak eXperiment has undergone an upgrade to LTX-, a major part of which is the addition of neutral beam injection (NBI). NBI has allowed for a new charge exchange recombination spectroscopy (CHERS) system to be installed in order to measure impurity concentrations, ion temperature, and toroidal velocity. Previously on LTX measuring these parameters relied on passive spectroscopy and inversion techniques and had large uncertainty. The CHERS system has 52 total views, split into four groups of 13, half facing toward the beam and half symmetrically facing away from the beam, so the background non-beam related emission can be simultaneously subtracted. Both sets of views sample a major radius of 27-59 cm, with resolution through the beam of 1.5-2.5 cm. LTX- is expected to have its magnetic axis near 35 cm, with minor radii of 18-23 cm. Three separate spectrometers will be used for the diagnostic, giving the system great flexibility to simultaneously measure emission from multiple impurity lines. The viewing optics are f/1.8, allowing all of the spectrometers to be fully illuminated. Design and calibration of the system as well as the advantages of various configurations of the spectrometers will be highlighted.
