Available information in 2D motional Stark effect imaging

Mathew Creese*, John Howard

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    Abstract

    Recent advances in imaging techniques have allowed the extension of the standard polarimetric 1D motional Stark effect (MSE) diagnostic to 2D imaging of the internal magnetic field of fusion devices [J. Howard, Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 50, 125003 (2008)]. This development is met with the challenge of identifying and extracting the new information, which can then be used to increase the accuracy of plasma equilibrium and current density profile determinations. This paper develops a 2D analysis of the projected MSE polarization orientation and Doppler phase shift. It is found that, for a standard viewing position, the 2D MSE imaging system captures sufficient information to allow imaging of the internal vertical magnetic field component BZ (r,z) in a tokamak.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number10D722
    JournalReview of Scientific Instruments
    Volume81
    Issue number10
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Oct 2010

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