Design of the polarization multi-pass Thomson scattering system
Author(s) -
Ryo Yasuhara,
Masayuki Yoshikawa,
Masahiro Morimoto,
I. Yamada,
K. Kawahata,
H. Funaba,
Y. Shima,
J. Kohagura,
M. Sakamoto,
Y. Nakashima,
T. Imai,
T. Minami
Publication year - 2012
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 - 10.1063/1.4734495
Subject(s) - thomson scattering , scattering , optics , polarization (electrochemistry) , coaxial , physics , computer science , telecommunications , chemistry
A novel configuration of the multi-pass Thomson scattering (TS) system is proposed to improve the time resolution and accuracy of electron temperature measurements by use of a polarization control technique. This configuration can realize a perfect coaxial multi-passing at each pass, and the number of round trips is not limited by the optical configuration. To confirm the feasibility of the new method, we installed this system in the GAMMA 10 plasma system. As a result, the integrated scattering signal of the double-pass configuration is about two times larger than that of the single-pass configuration. These results are in good agreement with the design
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