Opto-Mechanical Design of FIR Diagnostic System for C-2W
October 2016 | M. Beall | APS-DPP | Poster
Upgraded interferometer/polarimeter on center plane of machine to provide high resolution density and magnetic field information.
Improved density profile measurements in the C-2U advanced beam-driven Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasmas
August 2016 | M. Beall | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
In the prior C-2 experiment, electron density was measured using a two-color 6-chord CO2/HeNe interferometer. Analysis shows that high-frequency common mode phase noise can be reduced by a factor of 3 by constructing a reference chord.