Abstract
A new coherence imaging spectroscopy (CIS) system has been characterized and validated for measurements of impurity ion velocity in the Compact Toroidal Hybrid (CTH) experiment. CIS is an interferometric technique providing very high spatial resolution of line-integrated ion flows; however, these measurements are highly sensitive to environmental factors such as temperature fluctuations. A compact interferometer design housed in a thermally regulated environment yields CIS measurement variations due to thermal fluctuations of 0.25 km/s. CIS measurements of He+ flows in the outer regions of CTH are benchmarked using two optical grating spectrometers. The deviation between the measurements is typically less than 2 km/s for multiple lines of sight which is well within the uncertainties of the diagnostics. Additional experiments demonstrate a moderate robustness of ion flows in the outer region of CTH to changing the vacuum transform, direction of the magnetic field, and plasma current. In contrast, regions of complete flow reversal are observed when a bias probe is inserted into the plasma edge.
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