Design of a Finline Antenna for Current Drive in Tst-2
A novel “finline” antenna was designed to excite lower-hybrid waves (LHWs) for plasma current drive at 2.45 GHz in the TST-2 spherical tokamak. A periodic fin array acts as a transmission line for electromagnetic surface waves. Cold tests confirmed propagation of the electromagnetic surface wave on the fin array which was dominantly Transverse Magnetic (TM). Unlike the conventional waveguide array “grill” antenna, the finline antenna requires only two ports to feed all the elements, and calculations show that there is little reflection regardless of the plasma conditions in front of the antenna. Characteristics of the microwave transmission on the fin array were investigated using a three-dimensional full-wave simulation and the fin geometry was tuned to achieve the desired refractive index. Coupling to LHWs under typical TST-2 scrape-off layer conditions was confirmed by the simulation. To demonstrate LHW excitation, the finline antenna was energized in the presence of a plasma generated by another 200 MHz LH antenna. The x-ray radiation showed strong enhancement during the finline antenna pulse which indicated successful generation of fast electrons by LHWs
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[2022]
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Authors: | Watanabe, Osamu ; Ko, Yongtae ; Tsujii, Naoto ; Takase, Y. ; Ejiri, Akira ; Shinohara, K. ; Peng, Yi ; Iwasaki, Kotaro ; Yamada, Iwao ; Yatomi, Go ; Moeller, Charles P. ; Peng, Y.-K. M. |
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