ICRF antenna matching systems with ferrite tuners for the Alcator C-Mod tokamak
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Lin, Yijun
Binus, Alan
Wukitch, Stephen James
Koert, Peter
Murray, Richard A
Pfeiffer, Andrew T
Date Issued
July 2015
Journal
Fusion Engineering and Design
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation
Lin, Y. et al. “ICRF Antenna Matching Systems with Ferrite Tuners for the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak.” Fusion Engineering and Design 100 (November 2015): 239–248 © 2015 Elsevier B.V.
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Abstract
Real-time fast ferrite tuning (FFT) has been successfully implemented on the ICRF antennas on Alcator C-Mod. The former prototypical FFT system on the E-port 2-strap antenna has been upgraded using new ferrite tuners. A new FFT system with two ferrite tuners and one fixed-length stub has been installed on the transmission line of the D-port 2-strap antenna. These two systems are able to achieve and maintain the reflected power to the transmitters to less than 1% in real time under almost all plasma conditions and help ensure reliable high power operation of the antennas. The loading insensitivity feature vs. plasma conditions of the innovative field-aligned (FA) 4-strap antenna on the J-port allows us to significantly improve the matching by installing a carefully designed stub on each of the two transmission lines. The reduction of the RF voltages in the transmission lines has enabled the J-port FA antenna to deliver 3.7 MW RF power to plasmas out of 4 MW source power. The matching on the J-port antenna can be further improved by adding a single ferrite tuner under real-time control on each transmission line and this scheme will be implemented in the near future.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2015.06.022
