Development of a 140 GHz Steerable Launcher for the HL-2A ECRH System

• Published in: Plasma science & technology Vol. 15; no. 12; pp. 1247 - 1253
• Main Author: 黄梅 陈罡宇 周俊 周超 郑铁流 王贺 卢波 饶军 刘永
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.12.2013
• Subjects: Beams (radiation); ECRH; Electron cyclotron resonance; GHz; Heating; HL-2A装置; Launchers; Linearity; Position (location); Ray tracing; Scanning; Transmission; 可控启动; 射线追踪模拟; 开发; 波束扫描; 电子回旋共振加热系统
• ISSN: 1009-0630
• DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/15/12/16

A new electron cyclotron resonance launcher system has been designed and installed on heating and current drive （ECRH/ECCD） the HL-2A tokamak to inject four beams and enable continuous millimeter-wave beam scanning independently in the toroidal and poloidal direc- tions for ECRH/ECCD experiments. The launcher is connected to four mm-wave lines capable of transmitting high power up to 3 MW with two 1 MW/140 GHz/3 s and two 0.5 MW/68 GHz/1 s beams. Based on ray tracing simulation using the TORAY-GA code, tile scanning range of wave beams is -15~~15~ in the toroidal direction and 0~~10~ in the poloidal one for 140 GHz beams, which could cover half of the cross section of plasmas and can satisfy the requirements of advanced physical experiments. The beam radii in the plasma is 17.1 mm and 20 mm for the two 140 GHz beams and 29.5 nnn for the two 68 GHz beams, respectively, allowing a very high localization of the absorbed power. The performance of the steering system was proven to be reliable and the linearity is perfect between the displacement of drive shaft and rotate angle of mirror. Addition- ally the injection performance of the wave beams was optinfized by simultaneously setting the injection angle and the polarization to realize desirable pure O- or X-mode injection.