Q-Band X-Mode Reflectometry and Density Profile Reconstruction

QU Hao (屈浩); ZHANG Tao (张涛); ZHANG Shoubiao (张寿彪); WEN Fei (文斐); WANG Yumin (王嵎民); KONG Defeng (孔德峰); HAN Xiang (韩翔); YANG Yao (杨曜); GAO Yu (高宇); HUANG Canbin (黄灿斌); CAI Jianqing (蔡剑青); GAO Xiang (高翔); the EAST team

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Plasma Science and Technology > 2015 > 17(12): 985-990. > DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/17/12/01

QU Hao (屈浩), ZHANG Tao (张涛), ZHANG Shoubiao (张寿彪), WEN Fei (文斐), WANG Yumin (王嵎民), KONG Defeng (孔德峰), HAN Xiang (韩翔), YANG Yao (杨曜), GAO Yu (高宇), HUANG Canbin (黄灿斌), CAI Jianqing (蔡剑青), GAO Xiang (高翔), the EAST team. Q-Band X-Mode Reflectometry and Density Profile Reconstruction[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2015, 17(12): 985-990. DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/17/12/01

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Q-Band X-Mode Reflectometry and Density Profile Reconstruction

Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China

Funds: supported by the National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Science Program of China (Nos. 2014GB106000 and 2014GB106003), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11275234, 11305215, 11305208)

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Received Date: December 11, 2014

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By installing an X-mode polarized Q-band (32-56 GHz) reflectometry at the low field side on EAST, the zero density cutoff layer was determined and the edge density profile was measured in normally operating plasmas. A Monte Carlo procedure has been developed to analyze the density profiles by considering the error of time delay measured by reflectometry. By combining this Q-band and previously developed V-and W-band reflectometries, the density pro?les from edge to core can be measured in most EAST experiments. The line integrated densities deduced from density pro?les measured by reflectometry are consistent with those directly measured by a horizontal interferometer. The density pedestal measured by reflectometry shows a clear crash during an ELM (edge localized mode) event, after which the pedestal gradually increases and recovers in 10 ms and then remains little changed up to the next ELM.
- reflectometry,
- density profile,
- pedestal

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