A fast-scanning heterodyne receiver for measurement of the electron cyclotron emission from high-temperature plasmas

P C Efthimion; V Arunasalam; R Bitzer; L Campbell; J C Hosea

doi:10.1063/1.1135975

A fast-scanning heterodyne receiver for measurement of the electron cyclotron emission from high-temperature plasmas

Rev Sci Instrum. 1979 Aug;50(8):949-51. doi: 10.1063/1.1135975.

Authors

P C Efthimion¹, V Arunasalam, R Bitzer, L Campbell, J C Hosea

Affiliation

¹ Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA.

PMID: 18699641
DOI: 10.1063/1.1135975

Abstract

We have developed a fast-scanning heterodyne receiver into a plasma diagnostic that measures the fundamental cyclotron emission from the PLT plasma and thus ascertains the time evolution of the electron temperature profile. The receiver scans 60-90 GHz every 10 ms and is interfaced to a computer for completely automated calibrated temperature measurements.