Abstract
At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), theoretical and experimental foundations for the development of future gyrotrons for fusion applications are being laid down. This includes the construction of the new Fusion Long Pulse Gyrotron Laboratory (FULGOR) test facility as well as physical design studies towards DEMO-compatible gyrotrons. Initially FULGOR will comprise of a 10MW CW power supply, a 5MW water cooling system (upgradeable to 10MW), a superconducting 10T magnet, one or two 2MW ECRH test loads and a new control and data acquisition system for all these elements. The test facility will then be equipped to test the conventional 1MW or coaxial 2MW gyrotrons for DEMO, currently under design, as well as possible upgraded gyrotrons for W7-X and ITER. The design of the new high voltage DC power supply (HVDCPS) is flexible enough to handle gyrotrons with 4MW CW output power (conceivably up to 170GHz), but also test gyrotrons with higher frequencies (>250GHz) which, due to physical limitations in the gyrotron design, will require less power but have more stringent demands on voltage stability.
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