Abstract
A 280 GHz single-channel horizontal millimeter-wave interferometer system has been fabricated and installed for plasma electron density measurements on the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR). A retractable cassette system has been adopted for deep positioning of the interferometer system on large cryostat. The cassette system contains a pneumatic vacuum window shutter and a beam focusing module. The focusing module consists of antennas and aluminum concave mirrors, where an incident beam is reflected on a specially designed carbon inner-wall tile. The module enhances receiving beam power and reduces phase errors due to unexpected beam reflections on a vacuum vessel. Microwave components such as oscillators and mixers are located 2 m away from cryostat with a shielding box. Intermediate frequency signals generated by mixers are transmitted to a diagnostics room, and the phase difference between these signals is measured using a multifringe counting phase comparator. A beam path analysis has been performed for a triangular beam path geometry. An effective line-integrated density can be deduced from measured line-integrated density with these results. A beam path length error due to plasma refraction effect has been determined with various plasma conditions.
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