Electron Cyclotron Harmonic Wave Heating in Tokamak Plasmas with Different Polarization Modes

Electron cyclotron heating on HL-2A has been simulated by TORAY-GA with a second harmonic extraordinary wave and a fundamental ordinary wave. The results show that the wave absorption of the second harmonic extraordinary wave is better than that of the fundamental ordinary wave. In order to understand the interaction mechanism between electrons and the two dfferent polarization modes, the energy exchange between electrons and the two modes are theoretically analyzed, and it is found that the coupling intensity described by the Bessel function and di®erent polarizations of the two modes are the main reasons leading to the above phenomenon. The theoretical results of this study fit well with the simulated and numerical results.