ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
Calibration procedures for Thomson scattering systems based on television-like cameras, so-called TVTS systems, are described. The TVTS systems of the Rijnhuizen Tokamak Project (RTP), the TJ-II stellarator, and the Torus Experiment for Technology Oriented Research (TEXTOR) tokamak combine a 10–15 J ruby laser as a source with an intensified charge coupled device camera as a detector. A tungsten strip lamp in combination with an integrating sphere is used to calibrate all ∼105 pixels of the camera relatively to each other. Rayleigh scattering on hydrogen or nitrogen is used to perform an absolute calibration of the complete detection system. Great emphasis is placed on possible systematic errors on the determination of the electron temperature Te and density ne due to the calibration, such as tungsten lamp temperature, detoriation of the detection window, long term stability, laser beam alignment, and detector linearity. The long term stability of the system was tested by comparing different sets of calibration factors. Over a period of 1/2 yr the values of the calibration factors varied by less than 5%. Using the same Thomson scattering data but different sets of calibration factors the Te values varied even less than 1%. A two camera technique was used to search for possible unknown systematic errors in the determination of Te profiles. It appears that these systematic errors are about half of the observational error on Te. Density fluctuations can be determined with an accuracy equal to the statistical error of ∼3%, while the systematic error on ne appeared to be ∼10%, which can be corrected for using interferometer data. As a result, these TVTS systems can measure Te and ne profiles with ∼100 (RTP) or 120 (TEXTOR) spatial elements along the full plasma diameter with observational errors on Te of ∼6% in the range of 25 eV–6 keV, at ne=2×1019 m−3 and 10 J laser energy. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1386896
