Abstract

Turbulent plasma edge density fluctuations can broaden a traversing microwave beam degrading its quality. This can be a problem for scenarios relying on a high spatial localization of the deposition of injected microwave power, like controlling MHD instabilities. Here we present numerical estimations of the scattering of a microwave beam by density fluctuations over a large parameter range, including extrapolations to ITER. Two codes are used, the full-wave code IPF-FDMC and the wave kinetic equation solver WKBeam. A successful comparison between beam broadening obtained from DIII-D experiments and corresponding full-wave simulations is shown.

Details

Title
The deteriorating effect of plasma density fluctuations on microwave beam quality
Author
Köhn, Alf; Austin, Max E; Brookman, Michael W; Gentle, Kenneth W; Guidi, Lorenzo; Holzhauer, Eberhard; La Haye, Rob J; Leddy, Jarrod B; Maj, Omar; Petty, Craig C; Poli, Emanuele; Snicker, Antti; Thomas, Matthew B; Vann, Roddy G L; Weber, Hannes
Section
Theory
Publication year
2019
Publication date
2019
Publisher
EDP Sciences
ISSN
21016275
e-ISSN
2100014X
Source type
Conference Paper
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2285039805
Copyright
© 2019. This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.