Abstract

The ASDEX Upgrade tokamak is equipped with a 5-channel DCN interferometer with a probing wavelength of 195 μm. Up to now, phase measurement and density calculation have been accomplished by hard-wired phase counting electronics. Meanwhile, a fast digitizer has been installed which acquires the raw signals. That way, the various causes of counting errors by integer multiples of 2π, so-called fringe jumps, can be analyzed, and phase reconstruction schemes based on digital signal processing can be developed. In addition, a prototype polarimeter setup has been installed on one channel and allows for measurement of the Faraday rotation experienced by the probing beam.

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