Studies on a 170 GHz, 1.0–1.3 MW, CW conventional cavity gyrotron

Author

Kartikeyan, M.V. ; Borie, E. ; Gantenbein, G. ; Kern, S. ; Piosczyk, B. ; Thumm, Manfred K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Roorkee

fYear

2008

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Design studies of a 1.0-1.3 MW, CW gyrotron operating at 170 GHz, for ECRH in the international thermonuclear fusion experiment (ITER) is presented. Mode competition and mode selection procedures have been carried out for various candidate modes to choose a probable cavity operating mode. The present study includes cold cavity and self-consistent design calculations. The initial results are indicating that an output power of over 1.3 MW can be achieved at 170 GHz with TE_34,9 or TE_36,10 as the operating cavity mode.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; fusion reactor design; fusion reactor ignition; fusion reactor instrumentation; gyrotrons; plasma radiofrequency heating; CW conventional cavity gyrotron; ECRH; ITER; frequency 170 GHz; international thermonuclear fusion experiment; power 1.0 MW to 1.3 MW; self-consistent design calculations; Design engineering; Diffraction; Frequency estimation; Fusion reactors; Gyrotrons; Heating; Magnetic fields; Power generation; Q factor; Tellurium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, 2008. IRMMW-THz 2008. 33rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pasadena, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2119-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2120-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIMW.2008.4665588

Filename

4665588