The paper presents gyrotron-based system (developed by IAP RAS jointly with GYCOM Ltd.) for ECR plasma heating in the new T-15MD tokamak which is under construction in National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute". The first of a series (8 units) of microwave setups of a megawatt power level was developed and successfully tested. The setup includes a gyrotron, set of power supplies, a microwave radiation transmission line, and a fast protection system. 1 MW/82.6 GHz generation regime during 30 second pulse with an efficiency of 57% was experimentally demonstrated.
The report proposes the project of a CW coaxial cavity gyrotron with an output frequency of 0.78 THz and an output power of about 100–200 W, intended for spectroscopy applications and diagnostics of various media. As a magnetic system, it is possible to use a cryomagnet, available at the FIR UF, with a maximum magnetic field intensity of 15 T and a diameter of a warm bore of 52 mm made by Jastec, Inc. To achieve the required value of an output frequency such a value of the magnetic field implies the development of a gyrotron operating at the 2rd cyclotron harmonic. The project assumes that the tube can operate on TE14,9 mode.
The paper describes an experimental facility for plasma physics and material science research. The system provides effective transportation of radiation from gyrotron output to the area under investigation inside the vessel, which can be arranged for specific task and equipped with different control and measurement tools. The use of this facility made it possible to realize a series of various experiments, in particular, initiating and studying the fundamental properties of a terahertz discharge, obtaining nanopowders by evaporation-condensation method, as well as measuring the dielectric properties of metal oxide powders. As a radiation source we used 0.26 THz/1 kW gyrotron, which can operate both in CW or pulse mode, gyrotron, the radiation of which can, if necessary, be focused by quasi-optical mirror into a spot with a diameter of about 2.5 mm, providing a power density of up to 20 kW/cm2 in the region of interest. The main components of the facility are described and some results of recent experiments are given.
A technique for imaging of high-power millimeter-wave (MMW) beams using visible light emission from a surfaceinitiated microwave gas breakdown is discussed. A wave beam from pulsed 250 GHz gyrotron was imaged using a microwave gas breakdown initiated by a surface of a metal-dielectric screen. The screen was placed in a shallow metal chamber filled with helium with an admixture of argon. In the region, where MMW intensity was higher than the threshold intensity of the surface-initiated microwave gas breakdown, the intensity profile of a high-power MMW beam, which was obtained using this technique, was in good agreement with the data obtained using the thermographic technique.
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