电子回旋共振放电电离特性的PIC/MCC模拟

A theoretical and computational model is presented to study the ionization of the argon electron cyclotron resonance(ECR)microwave discharge using a quasi-three-dimensional electromagnetic particle-in- cell plus Monte Carlo collision method.The interaction between the charged particles and microwave fields are described by the electromagnetic mode of particle-in-cell method.The collision processes are treated with Monte Carlo method.The simulation code is the original work.The results of the particle simulation for the ECR discharge of argon gas which include the microscopic features of charged particles and the electromagnetic characteristics of the ECR discharge plasma,and also the transient phenomena have been presented.     

Mode Coupling in a Partially Filled Plasma Waveguide With a Dielectric Liner

The stimulated Raman scattering of a perturbed TM mode in a dielectric loaded partially filled plasma waveguide is considered. The radiation is the result of the scattering of pump electromagnetic wave, which is an EH waveguide mode, off of a space-charge wave. A nonlinear wave equation for a three-wave interaction is used to investigate the coupling of the space-charge and waveguide modes. Dispersion relations for electromagnetic modes are solved numerically to study the frequency characteristics of the interaction of the EH waveguide modes with the space-charge modes. Formulas for the growth rates of the backscattered wave near the electron cyclotron frequency are derived, and the effect of a dielectric liner on the growth rates is investigated. Numerical studies show that the presence of the dielectric liner has an effect on the phase-matching condition and leads to rather larger growth rates close to electron cyclotron resonance.      

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介绍了离子回旋波加热领域研究进展,具体分析了快波少子加热模式转换情况以及影响模式转换分量大小和位置的因素。通过控制波的频率及少子浓度,使得波能够顺利传播到托卡马克等离子体的离子混合共振与截止的区域附近,并转换为离子Bernstein波而被等离子体有效吸收,因而能够改善加热效果。     

An Experimental Investigation of Second Harmonic Generation in a Cyclotron and Upper Hybrid Resonant Plasma

An experiment is described in which an electromagnetic wave (extraordinary mode) is propagated across a magnetized plasma and second harmonic generation is detected. The generation of the plasma and the second harmonic wave is associated with resonant conditions of electron cyclotron resonance and upper hybrid resonance. By adjusting the intensity of axial magnetic field, the second harmonic generation can be made solely due to the electron cyclotron resonance, the upper hybrid resonance or both. The experiment is qualitatively in agreement with previous similar experiments and can be explained in terms of the spatial variations of the magnetic field intensity and the electron number density. A technique for diagnosing peak number density is developed from the observed second harmonic power characteristics.     

Investigation about the modes in the cylindrical cavity of an ECR ion source

Both theoretical and numerical electromagnetic analyses about the modes inside the cylindrical cavity of superconducting electron cyclotron resonance ion source (SERSE) have been performed. Modes close to 14, 18 and 28 GHz frequencies, usually employed in SERSE operating conditions, have been calculated in vacuum and when the chamber is filled with a uniform non-collisional plasma at different electron densities. To consider the holes present in the chamber flanges, a numerical approach has been used, by means of the HFSS^TM electromagnetic simulator, for the first mode in the cavity. Modes in a plasma-filled cylindrical cavity with holed bases have full width half maximum bandwidths larger with regard to the closed cavity in vacuum, and it leads to an increased mode frequency overlap. A monochromatic electromagnetic wave feeding this cavity can, in principle, excite different modes. Further investigations about the coupling between the SERSE cavity and its feeding waveguides have to be performed.     

Sheared poloidal flow driven by mode conversion in tokamak plasmas

A two-dimensional integral full-wave model is used to calculate poloidal forces driven by mode conversion in tokamak plasmas. In the presence of a poloidal magnetic field, mode conversion near the ion-ion hybrid resonance is dominated by a transition from the fast magnetosonic wave to the slow ion cyclotron wave. The poloidal field generates strong variations in the parallel wave spectrum that cause wave damping in a narrow layer near the mode conversion surface. The resulting poloidal forces in this layer drive sheared poloidal flows comparable to those in direct launch ion Bernstein wave experiments.     

On the low-threshold parametric mechanism of the anomalous power absorption in electron cyclotron resonance heating experiments in toroidal devices

The experimental conditions that facilitate the excitation of parametric decay instabilities upon the electron cyclotron resonance heating of a plasma at the second harmonic extraordinary wave in tokamaks and stellarators and, as a result, make anomalous absorption of microwave power possible have been analyzed. It has been shown that, in the case of a nonmonotonic radial profile of the plasma density, when the beam of electron cyclotron waves passes near the equatorial plane of a toroidal device, the parametric excitation of electron Bernstein waves, as well as the generation of ion Bernstein waves propagating from the parametric decay region to the nearest ion cyclotron harmonic, where they efficiently interact with ions, is possible. The proposed theoretical model can explain the anomalous generation of accelerated ions observed upon electron cyclotron heating in small and moderate toroidal facilities.     

Low-threshold absolute parametric decay instabilities in experiments on electron cyclotron resonance heating in tokamaks

We have analyzed experimental conditions for the excitation of absolute parametric decay instabilities accompanying the electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) of plasma at the second harmonic of resonance in tokamaks. It has been shown that, in the case of a nonmonotonic radial profile of the plasma density, when a heating beam passes near the equatorial plane of a tokamak, the parametric excitation of resonances of ion Bernstein waves accompanied by the generation of the backscattered microwave radiation can occur. The threshold of absolute instability thus developed is determined by the dissipation of an ion Bernstein wave and can be exceeded in current experiments on the ECRH of a plasma in tokamaks.     

Radiated Electromagnetic Waves in an Inhomogeneous Magnetoplasma near the Upper Hybrid Frequency

Properties of several plasma waves in a wavenumber space are investigated in a hot magnetized plasma. The properties are applied to investigate ray trajectories of radiated electromagnetic waves to an inhomogeneous plasma and mode conversion of the extraordinary mode into electrostatic cyclotron harmonic waves at the upper hybrid frequency layer. The wave fronts of the mode-converted cyclotron harmonie wave from the extraordinary wave are made clear. Furthermore, ray trajectories of radiated cyclotron harmonic waves and the mode-converted extraordinary mode are obtained.     

束-离子通道电磁模式的边界效应分析

考虑束-离子通道边界上等离子体电子可能发生的扰动，导出了TM模本征方程的理论式.通过对理论结果的数值模拟计算，在阶跃边界情况下将束-离子通道与一般介质波导的电磁关系进行了比较，发现束-离子通道可以通过改变等离子体频率来控制其工作模式.分析对照扰动电荷边界与阶跃边界对束-离子通道电磁模式的影响，观察到在扰动电荷边界情况下，束-离子通道在低频区域(ω＜ω_p,ω_p为等离子体频率)内截止频率显著提高，并在高频区域(ω>ω_p)内出现了新的电磁模式.研究结果对离子通道激光(ICL)和离子通道电子回旋脉塞(ICECM)的设计提供重要的理论依据. 关键词： 束-离子通道 阶跃边界 扰动电荷边界 电磁模式     

KT—5B托卡马克上离子伯恩斯坦波的传播特性

一、引 言 在一些较大型的托卡马克装置上的研究业已表明,应用外激发离子伯恩斯坦波(IBW)对托卡马克等离子体进行辅助加热是一种极具有竞争力的方法。然而,对在托卡马克位形的等离于体中,IBW的激发、传播等一些基本过程,仍需做进一步的实验研究。我们利用小型装置的低温、低密度特点,采用高空间分辨的射频(RF)电探针作为IBW的主要探测     

电子回旋共振离子推力器放电室等离子体数值模拟

电子回旋共振离子推力器属于静电型推力器,具有寿命长、比冲高、结构简单、可靠性高等优点,适用于深空探测等长时间空间飞行任务.放电室是一个关键部件,其内部通过电子回旋共振产生等离子体.针对放电室内等离子体流场建立飘移-扩散近似模型,采用迎风格式有限差分法对该模型进行数值求解,得到了放电室内不同时刻的等离子体流场分布及其演化规律.数值模拟结果可以为推力器的设计和实验研究提供有用信息.     

托卡马克等离子体的快波模转换和吸收

本文对托卡马克位形,用动力理论研究了非均匀热等离子体的ICRF快波模转换及有关的阻尼机制。结果表明,对于多种离子成分的等离子体,在离子-离子混杂共振层和二次谐波回旋共振层附近,存在快波和离子伯恩斯坦波(IBW)之间的模转换;模转换层附近的色散关系与k_(?),离子种类浓度以及等离子体密度有明显的相关性。适当选择这些参数可大大改善快波能量的吸收和吸收的局域性。而在一种离子成分的等离子体中、无模转换过程发生。     

The anomalous penetration of intense circularly polarized electromagnetic beam through overdense magnetized plasma

The steady state nonlinear propagation of an intense, circularly polarized electromagnetic beam in an inhomogeneous magnetized plasma has been investigated in paraxial approximation. The laser induces a large oscillatory velocity on electrons, raising their mass and lowering the plasma frequency. Further, rising due to cyclotron resonance effect. The propagation of the electromagnetic waves in magnetized plasma in both the extraordinary and ordinary mode is analyzed. The nonlinearity in dielectric function is considered in presence of external magnetic field due to saturation effects for arbitrary large intensity, which leads to focusing/defocusing of the beam. The focusing effect along with magnetic field helps in the process of anomalous penetration of the beam by enhancing the depletion of the plasma from the axial region. The penetration increases with the incident beam power up to some critical value beyond which it rises abruptly when all electrons have been driven out of the axis. The cyclotron resonance effect awfully supports the laser beam to propagate inside the overdense plasma region. Numerical computations are performed for typical parameters of relativistic laser–plasma interaction applicable for underdense and overdense plasma.     

Transmission through a perforated metal film by applying an external magnetic field

We theoretically and numerically studied the transmission of light through a subwavelength-perforated metal film in the presence of an external magnetic field. The perforated metal films are found to exhibit a magnetoinduced light transparency due to cyclotron resonance. The localized waveguide surface plasmon (SP) resonance mode and periodicity-structure-factor-induced SP resonance mode are discussed by application of a static magnetic field. The field distributions are localized separately on the left and right metal-air surfaces for structure-factor-induced resonance mode. And for localized cavities resonance mode, standing electromagnetic fields can also be entirely localized inside the nanohole region.     

Low-threshold parametric decay instabilities in the experiments on the electron cyclotron resonance heating in tokamaks and stellarators

The experimental conditions have been analyzed for a significant reduction of the threshold of the reflective parametric decay instabilities under electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) of a plasma in magnetic devices in the absence of the upper hybrid resonance for the pump wave. The role of the nonmonotonic profile of the plasma density near the O point of the magnetic island, which allows for the localization of ion Bernstein waves in the direction of the density gradient and the suppression of convective losses from the decay region has been discussed. It has been shown that the threshold of the instability of the induced backscattering near the local maximum of the density profile is decreased by four orders of magnitude and is easily exceeded in present-day ECRH experiments at a power of several hundred kilowatts.     

用电子迴旋共振加热抑制托卡马克中的撕裂模

利用电子迴旋共振加热的定域性,改善等离子体电流分布,从而改善撕裂模的稳定条件,只要电子迴旋共振加热的吸收区能覆盖住撕裂模的共振层,就有很好的稳定效应;而不一定要求电子迴旋共振面与撕裂模的共振面重合,在迴旋加热期间,撕裂模被有效地抑制住。 关键词：     

Ion surface cyclotron waves at plasma-metal interfaces

The dispersion properties of slow electromagnetic surface waves propagating across a constant external magnetic field and along a plane plasma-metal interface at harmonics of the ion cyclotron frequency are studied. The motion of the plasma particles is described by a Vlasov-Boltzmann kinetic equation. The effects of the plasma size, the dielectric permittivity of the transition region between the plasma and metal, and the magnitude of the constant external magnetic field on the dispersion characteristics of ion surface cyclotron waves are studied. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 69, 83–89 (October 1999)     

Solitary electromagnetic pulses detected with super-Alfvénic flows in Earth's geomagnetic tail

Solitary nonlinear (deltaB/B>1) electromagnetic pulses have been detected in Earth's geomagnetic tail accompanying plasmas flowing at super-Alfvénic speeds. The pulses in the current sheet had durations of approximately 5 s, were left-hand circularly polarized, and had phase speeds of approximately the Alfvén speed in the plasma frame. These pulses were associated with a field-aligned current J(parallel) and observed in low density (approximately 0.3 cm(-3)), high temperature (T(e) approximately T(i) approximately 3x10(7) K), and beta approximately 10 plasma that included electron and ion beams streaming along B. The wave activity was enhanced from below the ion cyclotron frequency to electron cyclotron and upper hybrid frequencies. The detailed properties suggest the pulses are nonlinearly steepened ion cyclotron or Alfvén waves.     

Observation of Localized Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating in a Magnetic Mirror

A right-hand circularly polarized (RHCP) electron cyclotron wave is launched along the axis of a steady-state magnetically confined plasma column. Detailed measurements of the spatial variation of electron temperature, density, plasma potential, and wave amplitude about the resonance zone are presented. In particular, data are presented where the temperature increase due to electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) is strongly localized near the resonance position. A numerical wave heating model has been developed for electrons in a magnetic mirror and is found to be in qualitative agreement with observations.