Study of directly launched ion Bernstein waves in a tokamak
- 14 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 59 (11), 1201-1204
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.1201
Abstract
Excitation, propagation, and absorption of directly launched ion Bernstein waves were studied with laser scattering in the Alcator C tokamak. Optimum excitation is obtained when an ion-cyclotron harmonic layer is located just behind the antenna. Wave absorption at the ω=3 layer was observed. 3 It may be necessary to control the edge density fluctuation level in order to minimize scattering of the ion Bernstein waves and optimize heating.
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