Development of real-time plasma current profile reconstruction with POINT diagnostic for EAST plasma control

Abstract

This paper describes the plasma current profile reconstruction algorithms using POlarimeter-INTerferometer(POINT) measurements in GPU parallel equilibrium reconstruction code P-EFIT for EAST plasma control. Real-time POINT diagnostic data acquisition system is designed to satisfy the requirement for real-time reconstruction. The static time-slice and experimental simulation benchmark calculations using experimental magnetic plus POINT data of EAST discharge are conducted, which show that P-EFIT could provide reasonable plasma current and q profile in 0.7ms in real-time with 65×65 spatial grid resolution. These results show that P-EFIT with POINT diagnostic could provide equilibrium reconstruction results for real-time plasma current and q profile control which will be applied in the near future.