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Development of Thomson scattering system on VEST
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- Issue Date
- 2019-06
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Citation
- Fusion Engineering and Design, Vol.143, pp.130-136
- Abstract
- A Thomson scattering (TS) system has been developed on Versatile Experiment Spherical Torus (VEST) to measure the electron temperature and the density. In VEST, it is quite challenging to measure TS signals because the energy of the utilized pulsed laser and the target electron density are low, 0.85J and similar to 5 x 10(18)m(-3), respectively. Furthermore, the difficulties caused by filter specifications have to be resolved because of the use of commercial interference filters with broad bandwidth and poor blocking at the laser wavelength. Therefore, we especially optimize the placement order of the filter sets based on the evaluation of the relative errors to overcome the poor spectral resolution. In addition, the amount of the stray light that penetrating filters is reduced by vacuum components such as baffles, louvres, and a viewing dump. With the careful installation and the optimization of the system, we can develop an efficient Thomson scattering system. Recently, TS signals have been successfully measured from the ohmic plasmas, and the electron temperature and the density are determined by analyzing the signals with the Bayesian method.
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- 0920-3796
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