Deep modelling of plasma and neutral fluctuations from gas puff turbulence imaging
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Author(s)
Mathews, Abhilash
Terry, James L.
Baek, Seung Gyou
Hughes, Jerry W.
Kuang, Adam Q.
LaBombard, Brian
Miller, M.A.
Zweben, S.J.
Stotler, D.
Reiter, D.
Date Issued
January 2022
Journal
Review of Scientific Instruments
Publisher
AIP
Abstract
The role of turbulence in setting boundary plasma conditions is presently a key uncertainty in projecting to fusion energy reactors. To robustly diagnose edge turbulence, we develop and demonstrate a technique to translate brightness measurements of HeI line radiation into local plasma fluctuations via a novel integrated deep learning framework that combines neutral transport physics and collisional radiative theory for the $3^3 D - 2^3 P$ transition in atomic helium. The tenets for experimental validity are reviewed, illustrating that this turbulence analysis for ionized gases is transferable to both magnetized and unmagnetized environments with arbitrary geometries. Based upon fast camera data on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, we present the first 2-dimensional time-dependent experimental measurements of the turbulent electron density, electron temperature, and neutral density revealing shadowing effects in a fusion plasma using a single spectral line.
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Submitted for publication in Review of Scientific Instruments
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0088216
