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@ARTICLE{Gonalves:1007470,
author = {Gonçalves, Bruno and Varela, Paulo and Silva, António and
Silva, Filipe and Santos, Jorge and Ricardo, Emanuel and
Vale, Alberto and Luís, Raúl and Nietiadi, Yohanes and
Malaquias, Artur and Belo, Jorge and Dias, José and
Ferreira, Jorge and Franke, Thomas and Biel, Wolfgang and
Heuraux, Stéphane and Ribeiro, Tiago and De Masi, Gianluca
and Tudisco, Onofrio and Cavazzana, Roberto and Marchiori,
Giuseppe and D’Arcangelo, Ocleto},
title = {{A}dvances, {C}hallenges, and {F}uture {P}erspectives of
{M}icrowave {R}eflectometry for {P}lasma {P}osition and
{S}hape {C}ontrol on {F}uture {N}uclear {F}usion {D}evices},
journal = {Sensors},
volume = {23},
number = {8},
issn = {1424-8220},
address = {Basel},
publisher = {MDPI},
reportid = {FZJ-2023-02070},
pages = {3926 -},
year = {2023},
abstract = {Providing energy from fusion and finding ways to scale up
the fusion process to commercial proportions in an
efficient, economical, and environmentally benign way is one
of the grand challenges for engineering. Controlling the
burning plasma in real-time is one of the critical issues
that need to be addressed. Plasma Position Reflectometry
(PPR) is expected to have an important role in
next-generation fusion machines, such as DEMO, as a
diagnostic to monitor the position and shape of the plasma
continuously, complementing magnetic diagnostics. The
reflectometry diagnostic uses radar science methods in the
microwave and millimetre wave frequency ranges and is
envisaged to measure the radial edge density profile at
several poloidal angles providing data for the feedback
control of the plasma position and shape. While significant
steps have already been given to accomplish that goal, with
proof of concept tested first in ASDEX-Upgrade and afterward
in COMPASS, important, ground-breaking work is still
ongoing. The Divertor Test Tokamak (DTT) facility presents
itself as the appropriate future fusion device to implement,
develop, and test a PPR system, thus contributing to
building a knowledge database in plasma position
reflectometry required for its application in DEMO. At DEMO,
the PPR diagnostic’s in-vessel antennas and waveguides, as
well as the magnetic diagnostics, may be exposed to neutron
irradiation fluences 5 to 50 times greater than those
experienced by ITER. In the event of failure of either the
magnetic or microwave diagnostics, the equilibrium control
of the DEMO plasma may be jeopardized. It is, therefore,
imperative to ensure that these systems are designed in such
a way that they can be replaced if necessary. To perform
reflectometry measurements at the 16 envisaged poloidal
locations in DEMO, plasma-facing antennas and waveguides are
needed to route the microwaves between the plasma through
the DEMO upper ports (UPs) to the diagnostic hall. The main
integration approach for this diagnostic is to incorporate
these groups of antennas and waveguides into a diagnostics
slim cassette (DSC), which is a dedicated complete poloidal
segment specifically designed to be integrated with the
water-cooled lithium lead (WCLL) breeding blanket system.
This contribution presents the multiple engineering and
physics challenges addressed while designing reflectometry
diagnostics using radio science techniques. Namely,
short-range dedicated radars for plasma position and shape
control in future fusion experiments, the advances enabled
by the designs for ITER and DEMO, and the future
perspectives. One key development is in electronics, aiming
at an advanced compact coherent fast frequency sweeping RF
back-end [23–100 GHz in few μs] that is being developed
at IPFN-IST using commercial Monolithic Microwave Integrated
Circuits (MMIC). The compactness of this back-end design is
crucial for the successful integration of many measurement
channels in the reduced space available in future fusion
machines. Prototype tests of these devices are foreseen to
be performed in current nuclear fusion machines.},
cin = {IEK-4},
ddc = {620},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-4-20101013},
pnm = {134 - Plasma-Wand-Wechselwirkung (POF4-134)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-134},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {37112274},
UT = {WOS:000979130600001},
doi = {10.3390/s23083926},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1007470},
}