Abstract

Microwave collective Thomson scattering (CTS) by using a 77 GHz gyrotron is routinely working in LHD and the improvements of the system is now underway. The targets of this diagnostic are measurements of energetic fast ion distribution and ion ratio. In the present system, 800kW 77 GHz gyrotron is injected horizontally and scattered radiation is received changing scattering angle. The system works with existence of electron cyclotron resonance layer. Thus, most of the power is absorbed at the layer like beam damping and stray radiation dramatically decreases. Gyrotron is modulated at 40 Hz, then, background ECE, which is signal in gyrotron off phase, is subtracted from scattered signal in gyrotron on phase. The perturbation of electron temperature due to the gyrotron injection is almost negligible. Temporal evolution of CTS spectrum is obtained by 32ch filter bank receiver through discharge and fine spectrum is obtained by 10 GHz sampling fast digitizer for 80 ms. Change of the width and asymmetry of CTS spectrum is observed after turning off of tangentially injected neutral beam (NB). This is qualitatively consistent with reduction of fast ion density. Preliminary data of ion ratio between hydrogen and helium are also obtained.

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