Open AccessAvailable information in 2D motional Stark effect imaging
Author(s) -
Mathew Creese,
J. Howard
Publication year - 2010
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 - 10.1063/1.3492410
Subject(s) - stark effect , polarization (electrochemistry) , plasma , plasma diagnostics , tokamak , magnetic field , physics , polarimetry , doppler effect , nuclear magnetic resonance , computational physics , optics , atomic physics , electric field , nuclear physics , scattering , chemistry , quantum mechanics
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 B(Z)(r,z) in a tokamak.
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