Open AccessThe observation of nonlinear ion cyclotron wave excitation during high-harmonic fast wave heating in the large helical device
Author(s) -
Hiroshi Kasahara,
T. Seki,
R. Kumazawa,
Kenji Saito,
T. Mutoh,
S. Kubo,
Τ. Shimozuma,
H. Igami,
Y. Yoshimura,
H. Takahashi,
I. Yamada,
T. Tokuzawa,
S. Ohdachi,
S. Morita,
G. Nomura,
F. Shimpo,
A. Komori,
O. Motojima,
T. Oosako,
Y. Takase,
Yan Zhao,
J.G. Kwak
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
review of scientific instruments
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.605
H-Index - 165
eISSN - 1089-7623
pISSN - 0034-6748
DOI - 10.1063/1.2973325
Subject(s) - physics , cyclotron , atomic physics , harmonic , lower hybrid oscillation , excitation , optics , electron , nuclear physics , acoustics , quantum mechanics
A wave detector, a newly designed magnetic probe, is installed in the large helical device (LHD). This wave detector is a 100-turn loop coil with electrostatic shield. Comparing a one-loop coil to this detector, this detector has roughly constant power coupling in the lower frequency range of40 MHz, and it can easily detect magnetic wave in the frequency of a few megahertz. During high-harmonic fast wave heating, lower frequency waves (<10 MHz) were observed in the LHD for the first time, and for the power density threshold of lower frequency wave excitation (7.5 MHz) the power density of excited pumped wave (38.47 MHz) was approximately ?46 dBm/Hz. Theselower frequencies are kept constant for electron density and high energy particle distribution, and these lower frequency waves seem to be ion cyclotron waves caused by nonlinear wave-particle interaction, for example, parametric decay instability
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