Abstract
A polarimeter has been designed to measure Faraday rotation and help to understand the profile of its safety factor, q, on the recently built SPECTOR magnetized target fusion machine at General Fusion. The polarimeter uses two counter-rotating, circularly polarized, 118.8 μm beams to probe the plasma. Grad-Shafranov simulations have been used to investigate the effect of measurement error and chord geometry.
Polarimeter for the General Fusion SPECTOR machine
Carle, Patrick and Froese, Aaron and Wong, Adrian and Howard, Stephen and O’Shea, Peter and Laberge, Michel, Review of Scientific Instruments, 87, 11E104 (2016), DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4959797
This article appeared in Review of Scientific Instruments 87 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4959797
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