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Quasioptical Transmission Lines for ECRH at TJ-II Stellarator

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Two mirror lines have been used to transmit the microwave power from the powerful microwave generators to the TJ-II plasmas. Both lines have been tested at nominal power level and they are in operation now. This paper deals with the final design of the transmission lines and their testing. Before starting operation at high power level, measurements of the wave beam parameters at low power level were performed. Two horn antennas were designed to simulate the gyrotron output. The results are presented in this paper. A computer code based on Huygens diffraction theory was developed to simulate the propagation of the beam along the mirror lines. A comparison of the theoretical and the experimental results is also shown here.

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  1. Asociación Euratom-Ciemat para Fusión, Av. Complutense, 22, E-28040, Madrid, Spain

    Ángela Fernández & Konstantin M. Likin

  2. Grupo de Microondas y Milimétricas, Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, UPNA, Campus Arrosadía s/n, E-31006, Pamplona, Spain

    Pedro Turullols, Jorge Teniente, Ramón Gonzalo, Carlos del Río, Mario Sorolla & Romualdo Martín

  3. Electromagnetics Division, European Space Agency, European Space Research and Technology Center (ESA/ESTEC), Keplerlaan 1, P.O. Box 299, 2200AG, Noordwijk ZH, The Netherlands

    Jorge Teniente & Javier Martí-Canales

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  1. Ángela Fernández
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Fernández, Á., Likin, K.M., Turullols, P. et al. Quasioptical Transmission Lines for ECRH at TJ-II Stellarator. International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves 21, 1945–1957 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006720117520

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