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The collective Thomson scattering (CTS) technique has been utilized with the backscattering configuration in the collective scattering regime to diagnose the velocity distribution functions in the Large Helical Device (LHD). The receiver was equipped with 16 channels and the first test has been carried out using the eight channels for scattered radiation and these channels cover a few GHz frequency shift from the 76.95 GHz probe beam. During the discharge, the electron density and temperature at the central region of the LHD are 1×1019m−3, and 1.0 keV, respectively. The probing beam with rectangular wave modulation is injected by 50 Hz in order to be distinct from the background electron cyclotron emission (ECE). The scattered radiation is resolved successfully at each channel of CTS receiver system. The detected signals of bulk ion and electron components are by a factor of 10 ~ 102 larger than the background ECE signal. We found that the measured spectra are in reasonably agreement with the theoretical spectra calculated by using the reliable measured electron temperature and density for input parameters. The CTS receiver system will be improved to obtain more accurate velocity distributions in high temperature plasmas.

Initial result of collective Thomson scattering using 77 GHz gyrotron for bulk and tail ion diagnostics in the Large Helical Device