Investigation of the Scattering Efficiency in Doppler Reflectometry by Two-Dimensional Full-Wave Simulations

Author

Lechte, Carsten

Author_Institution

Inst. for Plasma Res., Univ. of Stuttgart, Stuttgart

Volume

37

Issue

6

fYear

2009

fDate

6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1099

Lastpage

1103

Abstract

Two-dimensional full-wave simulations of Doppler reflectometry in slab and curved geometries have been carried out with the finite-difference time-domain code IPF-FD3D. The goal is to find the instrument response function of the reflectometer that allows the recovery of the poloidal plasma-density-fluctuation-wavenumber spectrum by Doppler reflectometry at different angles of incidence. Apart from nonlinearities caused by high fluctuation levels, the scattering process is found to be strongly dependent on the angle of incidence on the cutoff layer, the beam parameters, and the plasma-density gradient length. In addition, the code was applied to the actual geometry of an ASDEX-Upgrade plasma.

Keywords

Doppler measurement; Tokamak devices; finite difference methods; microwave reflectometry; plasma density; plasma diagnostics; plasma simulation; plasma toroidal confinement; ASDEX-Upgrade plasma; Doppler reflectometry; IPF-FD3D; curved geometry; finite-difference time-domain code; instrument response function; poloidal plasma-density-fluctuation-wavenumber spectrum; scattering efficiency; slab geometry; two-dimensional full-wave simulations; Electromagnetic propagation in plasma media; electromagnetic scattering by plasma media; finite-difference methods; microwave reflectometry; plasma measurements; simulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPS.2009.2019651

Filename

4915741