A space-resolved visible spectrometer system using compact endoscopic optics for full vertical profile measurement of impurity line emissions in superconducting EAST tokamak

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel space-resolved visible spectrometer system with compact endoscopic optics for full vertical impurity profile measurements in the EAST tokamak, enabling detailed impurity behavior analysis in long pulse discharges.

Contribution

The paper introduces a new compact endoscopic spectrometer system capable of full vertical impurity profiling in the EAST tokamak, combining 1D and 2D spectroscopy with long fiber bundles and CMOS detectors.

Findings

Successful measurement of impurity line emission profiles.

Implementation of a long, flexible optical fiber system.

Preliminary vertical profile results for BII line emission.

Abstract

In Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST tokamak) with tungsten divertors and molybdenum first wall, lithiumization and boronization have been frequently carried out to improve the plasma performance, in particular, in long pulse discharges. A study on impurity behaviors of lithium, boron and tungsten atoms/ions in the edge plasma is then crucially important. For the purpose, a space-resolved visible spectrometer system has been newly developed to observe full vertical profiles over a length of 1.7m of impurity line emissions in wavelength range of 320-800nm. For the full vertical profile measurement compact endoscopic optics is employed with an optical fiber bundle for the system, which can be inserted into a 1.5m long extension tube called 'long nose', because the distance between the diagnostic port and plasma center is considerably long. Therefore, a quartz glass window mounted from the vacuum vessel side is designed to withstand the reverse pressure. A mechanical shutter is also designed to open at a large angle of 235 degree so that the viewing angle of nearby ports is not blocked. Two sets of the fiber bundle, 60-channel linear array and 11*10 channel planar array , with a length of 30m are attached to two sets of Czerny-Turner visible spectrometers for one-dimensional (1D) vertical profile measurement of core plasma and two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy of divertor plasma, respectively. A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) detector with 2048*2048 pixels is used for the visible spectrometers. A preliminary result on the full vertical profile is obtained for BII line emission at 703.19nm in the 1D system