Publication Date:
2013-11-06
Description:
A double-pass, radially-viewing, multichannel far-infrared (FIR) polarimeter/interferometer system is under development for current density profile and electron density profile measurements in the EAST tokamak. The system utilizes three 432.5 μm CW formic acid FIR lasers pumped by three CO 2 lasers. Each of the three FIR lasers can generate high output power of more than 30 mW per cavity. Two lasers, with slight frequency offset ( ~ 1 MHz), will be made collinear with counter-rotating circular polarization in order to determine the Faraday effect by measuring their phase difference. The third laser also frequency offset, will be used as a reference providing local oscillator (LO) power to each mixer so that one can obtain the phase shift caused by the plasma electron density. Novel molybdenic retro-reflectors with shutter protection have been designed and will be mounted on the inner vessel wall in EAST. The retro-reflectors can withstand baking temperature up to 350°C an...
Electronic ISSN:
1748-0221
Topics:
Physics
