Characteristics of diamond windows on the 1 MW, 110 GHz gyrotron systems on the DIII-D tokamak

Author

Gorelov, Y.A. ; Lohr, J. ; Borchard, P. ; Callis, R.W. ; Ponce, D.

Author_Institution

Gen. Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

26-26 Sept. 2002

Firstpage

161

Lastpage

162

Abstract

Diamond disks made using the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique are now in common use as gyrotron output windows. The low millimeter wave losses and excellent thermal conductivity of diamond have made it possible to use such windows in gyrotrons with /spl sim/1 MW output power and pulse length up to and greater than 10 s. A ubiquitous characteristic of diamond gyrotron windows is the presence of apparent hot spots in the infrared images registered during RF pulses. Many of these spots are co-located with bright points seen in visible video images. The spots do not seem to compromise the integrity of the windows. Analysis of the infrared observations on several different gyrotrons operating at the DIII-D Tokamak are reported.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; chemical vapour deposition; diamond; gyrotrons; infrared imaging; millimetre wave tubes; optical windows; thermal analysis; thermal conductivity; 1 MW; 10 s; 110 GHz; C; CVD; DIII-D Tokamak gyrotron systems; IR image analysis; RF pulse length; chemical vapor deposition diamond disks; gyrotron diamond window characteristics; gyrotron output window characteristics; gyrotron power/frequency; infrared image hot spots; low mm-wave losses; thermal conductivity; visible video image bright points; windows integrity; Gyrotrons; Impurities; Infrared imaging; Optical waveguides; Pollution measurement; Power generation; Surface contamination; Temperature; Thermal conductivity; Tokamaks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 2002. Conference Digest. Twenty Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7423-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIMW.2002.1076134

Filename

1076134