Abstract
India has an international presence in Plasma Physics and its diverse applications such as thermonuclear fusion, material processing, strategic and environmental applications and plasma devices. From a modest start in the early 1970s, we have made great strides in the field of experimental plasma physics. Capacity building in techniques relevant to plasma production, manipulation and parameter control, pulsed power, creation of magnetic fields of complex geometries, clean vacuum and pumping systems, development and deployment of diagnostics to enable understanding of fundamental processes in plasmas and computer simulation to model plasma phenomena have been truly remarkable. Parallel to this, a community of physicists, engineers and computer experts has grown and matured. Funding mechanisms and financial support essential to broad base the research and development activity by drawing in Universities and education institutes have been nucleated. It is through these activities that the human resource and technology development essential to sustain India's ambitious forays into magnetic confinement fusion and industrial and strategic plasma applications has taken place. This paper is an attempt to give a historical perspective to this journey, which started at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad and later, involved the Institute for Plasma Research at Gandhinagar, many DAE Institutions, IITs and Universities.
Highlights
India has an international presence in Plasma Physics and its diverse applications such as thermonuclear fusion, material processing and plasma devices
The results indicate that the magnetic field variations of the whistler wave in the far-field region are independent of the current source configuration, whereas in the near-field region, they depend on the antenna configuration
Capacity building in techniques relevant to plasma production, manipulation and control, creation of magnetic field and geometrical configurations and development and deployment of diagnostics to enable understanding of fundamental processes in plasmas has been truly remarkable. It is through these experiments that the human resource and technology development essential to sustain India’s ambitious foray into magnetic confinement fusion and industrial and strategic plasma applications has taken place
Summary
India has an international presence in Plasma Physics and its diverse applications such as thermonuclear fusion, material processing and plasma devices. Physics is being pursued in national centres like the Institute for Plasma Research-Gandhinagar, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre-Mumbai, Centre for Plasma Physics-Guwahati and Saha Institute for Nuclear Physics-Kolkata and in IITs and Universities. It has active international collaboration with European Union and US. A large number of students are trained in both fundamental and applied plasma physics and in both theory and experiments. In this presentation, I shall attempt an overview of the development of experimental plasma physics as it happened first at the Physical Research Laboratory and later at the Institute for Plasma Research.
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