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.     

简单磁镜中热电子等离子体的基本特性

本文叙述了简单磁镜中,热电子等离子体的实验结果。微波在基频共振层击穿气体产生等离子体,二次偕振加热产生热电子环。等离子体激发了低频交换模和漂移波,热电子环对等离子体的扰动有稳定作用。     

捕获电子对低杂波与电子回旋波的协同效应的影响

电子回旋波和低杂波的协同效应可有效地提高两只波的电流驱动效率.本文数值研究了捕获电子效应对电子回旋波和低杂波协同的影响.结果显示,随着捕获角的增大,双波协同驱动电流会减小,且协同因子也会明显减小,即捕获角对两只波协同驱动流的影响要比其对单独驱动电流的影响更加敏感.通过加宽低杂波共振区可减弱电子回旋波电流驱动对捕获角的依赖,同时发现随着电子回旋波功率的增加,捕获角对电子回旋波电流驱动的影响也会变小.     

CT-6B托卡马克微波预电离实验

用迴旋管产生的大功率微波在电子迴旋频率的基频及二次谐波频率进行了托卡马克放电的预电离实验。实验证明,这种预电离方法比一般的预电离方法的击穿气压低,击穿电压及放电初期所耗费的变压器磁通也低得多。基频共振较二次谐波共振的效果好。 关键词：     

Toroidal current generation by lower hybrid waves in a WT-1 device

A toroidal current driven by a lower hybrid wave (LHW) is obtained by applying RF power to a toroidal plasma produced by electron cyclotron resonance. The direction as well as the magnitude of the current depend on the supplementary vertical and horizontal magnetic fields, which is explained by confinement of current-carrying electrons in a toroidal device.     

THz波在不同角度磁化的非均匀磁化等离子体中的传输特性分析

为利用太赫兹波解决飞行器再入过程遇到的“黑障”问题,以散射矩阵方法为基础,分别以非均匀磁化等离子体的磁化方向、电子密度、外加磁场强度和碰撞频率为变量,研究了垂直入射情形下它们对太赫兹波传输行为的影响.结果表明:这些参数对太赫兹波传输性能影响明显,例如按某一方向改变磁化角度对左极化和右极化太赫兹波的传输功率有相反的影响;降低磁化强度能一定程度地避开等离子体对右极化波的吸收;而降低碰撞频率能缩小等离子体对右极化波的吸收频带.通过调整这些参数,有望在一定程度上缓解黑障现象.     

ECRH of trapped electrons in laboratory magnetoplasmas

Heating of plasma electrons by high power millimeter wave fields at cyclotron harmonic resonance is studied. A mirror field is modelled for the local trapping of electrons. It is shown that superthermal electrons can be generated as the consequence of the ECRH of trapped electrons.     

On kinetic effects in the ionosphericF-region modified by powerful radio waves

We consider effects related to acceleration of electrons by high-frequency plasma turbulence in the ionospheric F-region modified by powerful radio waves. The threshold of avalanche growth of the number of accelerated particles due to additional ionization is determined for pump-wave frequencies far from the multiple cyclotron resonance. The steady-state density of the accelerated electrons is found for the above pump-frequency values taking into account both turbulent trapping in the accelerating layer due to scattering of plasma waves and the return of electrons to this layer due to collisions. If the pump wave frequency is close to the multiple cyclotron resonance, fast electron distribution with significant transverse anisotropy is formed. Relaxation of this distribution due to collisions with charged particles outside the accelerating layer leads to the appearance of a maximum over transverse velocities in the tail of the distribution function. We propose a generation mechanism for the broad upshifted maximum feature in the spectrum of stimulated electromagnetic emission, which is related to the cyclotron instability of the accelerated electrons. The instability occurs in the double-resonance region in which the pump frequency is close to both the upper-hybrid and multiple-cyclotron frequency. Radiophysical Research Institute, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 42, No. 7, pp. 651–669, July 1999.     

Study of runaway electron behaviour during electron cyclotron resonance heating in the HL-2A Tokamak

During the current flat-top phase of electron cyclotron resonance heating discharges in the HL-2A Tokamak, the behaviour of runaway electrons has been studied by means of hard x-ray detectors and neutron diagnostics. During electron cyclotron resonance heating, it can be found that both hard x-ray radiation intensity and neutron emission flux fall rapidly to a very low level, which suggests that runaway electrons have been suppressed by electron cyclotron resonance heating. From the set of discharges studied in the present experiments, it has also been observed that the efficiency of runaway suppression by electron cyclotron resonance heating was apparently affected by two factors: electron cyclotron resonance heating power and duration. These results have been analysed by using a test particle model. The decrease of the toroidal electric field due to electron cyclotron resonance heating results in a rapid fall in the runaway electron energy that may lead to a suppression of runaway electrons. During electron cyclotron resonance heating with different powers and durations, the runaway electrons will experience different slowing down processes. These different decay processes are the major cause for influencing the efficiency of runaway suppression. This result is related to the safe operation of the Tokamak and may bring an effective control of runaway electrons.     

Effects of Lower-Hybrid Heating on the Hot Electrons in an Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance Plasma

Experiments were performed on an electron cyclotron resonance plasma in a dc magnetic mirror to determine the effects of lower hybrid resonance radiation on the anisotropy of the plasma. It was found that the anisotropy of the plasma hot electrons decreased, the flux of hot electrons escaping through the mirror throats decreased and the midplane wall bremsstrahlung rate slightly increased as lower hybrid resonance power was increased. This is explained by observing that cold plasma, expelled by the lower hybrid radiation, decreases the number of scattering centers in the midplane, which results in a deeper diamagnetic well for the hot electrons.     

电子回旋波使磁镜中捕获电子与逃逸电子相互转化

在Littlejohn的带电粒子引导中心拉格朗日体系下,讨论了电子回旋波对磁镜等离子体中捕获电子与逃逸电子的影响,给出了捕获电子变成逃逸电子以及逃逸电子被电子回旋波捕获的条件,并计算了它们的相互转化的概率。 关键词：     

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.     

Complex ray tracing study of electron cyclotron resonance heating

In the up-to-date ray tracing study of electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) of fusion plasmas, energy absorption effect has never been considered into the wave trajectory computation. Thus all the work has been done in real space so far. In this paper we consider coupling of energy absorption to wave trajectory for the first time, and numerically solve the formal complex Hamilton equations in complex space, then take the real-space-projected wave trajectories and group velocities to be the corresponding concrete ones. It is shown that both ordinary wave and extraordinary wave injected from the inner side of the tokamak plasmas approach the electron cyclotron resonance surface step by step and their group velocities become exceedingly small as they move toward this surface. Those clearly show that the resonance between the electron cyclotron waves and the fusion plasmas takes place in the electron cyclotron resonance region, which is just the case the ECRH experimental results and the plasma kinetic theory of waves demonstrate.     

Cyclotron resonance in the InAs/GaSb heterostructure in an inclined magnetic field

The mechanism of cyclotron resonance line splitting in the InAs/GaSb heterostructure in an inclined magnetic field has been studied experimentally and theoretically. It is shown that the admixing of electron and hole states leads to anticrossing of the Landau levels and, hence, to splitting of the cyclotron resonance line. In the case of an inclined magnetic field, the splitting is not observed, which is explained by the suppression of the admixing of electron and hole states due to the occurrence of an additional barrier for electrons and holes given a longitudinal magnetic field component.     

电子回旋波与快波协同效应的数值研究

在考虑了电子的反弹平均效应及高能电子的相对论效应下,通过数值求解电子的Fokker-Planck方程,研究了托卡马克等离子体中快波与电子回旋波电流驱动问题。采用九点差分法对方程进行离散,应用近似LU因子分解法对方程进行了数值求解。计算结果表明快波与电子回旋波联合电流驱动具有很强的协同效应,在两波联合电流驱动下,驱动电流大于单波电流驱动之和。     

Parametric Instability of Surface Waves on the Second Harmonic of Electron Cyclotron Frequency in a Plasma Layer

The parametric instability of surface waves on the second harmonic of electron cyclotron frequency (SWCF) in a plasma filled dielectric wave guide is examined in a kinetic approximation. The studied surface waves are extraordinary polarized modes and propagate across the external steady magnetic field. The amplitude of the electrical pump wave is assumed to be small. Simple expressions for increments of the parametric instability of the SWCF are calculated. The otained results can be used in controlled fusion researches in order to avoid undesirable regimes of plasma periphery heating in that fusion devices which use the resonance electron cyclotron heating method.     

Saturation of cyclotron maser instability driven by an electron loss-cone distribution

The resoinance diffusion of electrons in velocity space caused by the excited EM wave fields is considered to be the dominant saturation process of cyclotron maser instability that is driven by an electron loss-cone distribution. An upper-bound of the saturation level is derived analytically. Since the resulting saturation level is low the resonance diffusion is indeed responsible for the saturation of the cyclotron maser instability.     

逃逸电子和不稳定性波反常多普勒共振实验研究

利用电子回旋辐射诊断系统并结合其他相关诊断研究了HL-2A托卡马克中逃逸电子与波间的反常多普勒共振作用.结果显示:欧姆放电下提高等离子密度能抑制逃逸电子束的不稳定性,但等离子密度的再次降低导致逃逸电子又会激发不稳定性波,并耦合不稳定性波发生二次反常多普勒共振作用.利用统计方法分析了HL-2A上不同放电阶段逃逸电子反常多普勒共振阈值(ωpe/ωce)区间大致都在0.17-0.54范围内.此共振机制导致逃逸电子在速度空间被波散射,平行能量转化到垂直能量,pitch角增加,同步辐射功率增强,逃逸电子能量限制在反常多普勒效应的阈值能量附近.基于反常多普勒共振的逃逸抑制能有效减轻逃逸电子对装置第一壁的损坏.     

Ionospheric modification at twice the electron cyclotron frequency

In 2004, a new transmission band was added to the HAARP high-frequency ionospheric modification facility that encompasses the second electron cyclotron harmonic at altitudes between approximately 220 and 330 km. Initial observations indicate that greatly enhanced airglow occurs whenever the transmission frequency approximately matches the second electron cyclotron harmonic at the height of the upper hybrid resonance. This is the reverse of what happens at higher electron cyclotron harmonics. The measured optical emissions confirm the presence of accelerated electrons in the plasma.     

Parametric Mechanism of Anomalous Microwave Power Absorption in Experiments on Electron Cyclotron Heating in Toroidal Magnetic Traps

The nonlinear stage of the parametric decay instability of an extraordinary wave is analyzed in the presence of a nonmonotonic density profile. The decay excites an electron Bernstein wave, which is localized in the vicinity of a local density maximum, and an ion Bernstein wave, which leaves a nonlinear interaction region and is absorbed by ions in the vicinity of the harmonics of the ion cyclotron frequency. The main mechanism of instability saturation is considered to be a cascade of decays of a primary daughter electron Bernstein wave, which leads to the excitation of localized secondary electron Bernstein waves and ion cyclotron (Bernstein) waves. The localization of electron Bernstein waves causes a significant decrease in the secondary- decay excitation threshold, which is thought to provide saturation of the primary instability at the lowest level. The saturation of the primary parametric decay instability of a pump wave and the anomalous absorption of the pump power are analytically estimated. A numerical simulation is performed using the parameters that are typical of the experiments on the electron cyclotron resonance heating of plasma at the second resonance harmonic in TCV tokamak.