Cavity-Enhanced Photodetachment of H- as a Means to Produce Energetic Neutral Beams for Plasma Heating
| Autor: | BLONDEL, Christophe, Bresteau, D., Drag, Cyril |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), Université Paris-Saclay-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École polytechnique (X)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Laboratoire de physique des gaz et des plasmas (LPGP), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PIBERNE, Rodrigue |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Atoms 29th International symposium on the physics of ionized gases (SPIG) 29th International symposium on the physics of ionized gases (SPIG), Aug 2018, Belgrade, Serbia. pp.32 |
| Popis: | International audience; Neutral beam injection, for plasma heating, will supposedly be achieved, in ITER, by collisional detachment of a pre-accelerated D− beam. Collisional detachment, however, makes use of a D2-filled neutralisation chamber, which has severe drawbacks, including the necessity to set the D− -ion source at −1 MV. Photodetachment, in contradistinction, would have several advantages as a neutralisation method, including the absence of gas injection, and the possibility to set the ion source close to the earth potential. Photodetachment, however, requires a very high laser flux. The presented work has consisted in implementing an optical cavity, with a finesse greater than 3000, to make such a high illumination possible with a state-of-the-art CW (continuous-wave) laser. A 1.2 keV 1H− -beam (only 20 times slower than the 1 MeV 2D− ion beams to be prepared for ITER) was photodetached with more-than-50% efficiency, with only 24 W of CW laser input. This experimental demonstration paves the way for developing real-size photoneutralizers, based on the implementation of refolded optical cavities around the ion beams of neutral beam injectors. Depending on whether the specifications of the laser power or the cavity finesse will be more difficult to achieve in real scale, different architectures can be considered, with greater or smaller numbers of optical refoldings or (inclusively) optical cavities in succession, on the beam to be neutralised. |
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