Electron cyclotron heating experiments on the JFT-2 tokamak using an inside launch antenna

Abstract

An electron cyclotron heating experiment is described in which 28 GHz microwave power is launched from the high field side (inside) of a tokamak discharge from a steerable phased array antenna exciting the extraordinary mode. The central temperature was doubled (from 600 eV to 1200 eV) with a power at the antenna approximately two-thirds the Ohmic input. An oblique launch of the extraordinary mode was found to heat more efficiently and to a higher density than either the perpendicularly launched extraordinary mode or the ordinary mode launched from the outside.