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V-band Doppler backscattering diagnostic in the TCV tokamak

Molina Cabrera, Pedro Andres  
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Coda, S.  
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Porte, L.  
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August 1, 2018
Review Of Scientific Instruments

A variable configuration V-band heterodyne Doppler back-scattering diagnostic has been recently made operational in the tokamak a configuration variable. This article describes the hardware setup options, flexible quasi-optical launcher antenna, data-analysis techniques, and first data. The diagnostic uses a fast arbitrary waveform generator as the main oscillator and commercial vector network analyzer extension modules as the main mm-wave hardware. It allows sweepable single or multi-frequency operation. A flexible quasi-optical launcher antenna allows 3D poloidal (10 degrees - 58 degrees) and toroidal (-180 degrees to 180 degrees) steering of the beam with 0.2 degrees accuracy. A pair of fast HE11 miter-bend polarizers allow flexible coupling to either O or X mode and programmable polarization changes during the shot. These have been used to measure the magnetic-field pitch angle in the edge of the plasma by monitoring the backscattered signal power. Ray-tracing simulations reveal an available k(perpendicular to) range between 3 and 16 cm(-1) with a resolution of 2-4 cm(-1). Perpendicular rotation velocity estimates compare well against ExB plasma poloidal rotation estimates from charge exchange recombination spectroscopy.

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research article
DOI
10.1063/1.5007433
Web of Science ID

WOS:000443720400027

Author(s)
Molina Cabrera, Pedro Andres  

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Coda, S.  
Porte, L.  
Offeddu, N.
Lavanchy, P.  
Silva, M.
Toussaint, M.
Date Issued

2018-08-01

Publisher

AMER INST PHYSICS

Published in
Review Of Scientific Instruments
Volume

89

Issue

8

Article Number

083503

Subjects

Instruments & Instrumentation

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Physics, Applied

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Instruments & Instrumentation

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Physics

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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