Dual wavelength imaging of a scrape-off layer in an advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration

Dual wavelength imaging of a scrape-off layer in an advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration

August 2016 | D. Osin | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper

A dual wavelength imaging system has been developed and installed on C-2U to capture 2D images of a He jet in the Scrape-O↵ Layer (SOL) of an advanced beam-driven Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasma. The system was designed to optically split two identical images and pass them through 1 nm FWHM filters.

Enhanced magnetic field probe array for improved excluded flux calculations on the C-2U advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration plasma experiment

Enhanced magnetic field probe array for improved excluded flux calculations on the C-2U advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration plasma experiment

August 2016 | T. Roche | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper

External flux conserving coils were installed onto the exterior of the C-2U confinement vessel to increase the flux confinement time of the system. The 0.5 in. stainless steel vessel wall has a skin time of ⇠5 ms. The addition of the external copper coils e↵ectively increases this time to ⇠7 ms.