ITER
Apart from specific work on ITER Diagnostics under EFDA & F4E contracts, physicists of FOM are actively involved in the ITPA (International Tokamak Physics Activity) Topical Group on Diagnostics that coordinates the world-wide voluntary physics in the field of ITER Diagnostics. Specifically Tony Donné has been acting as chair of this group, while Manfred von Hellermann is chair of the Specialists Working Group on Beam-Aided Spectroscopy that resides under the wings of the above Topical Group. The group has been involved in different diagnostic systems for ITER:
- poloidal polarimetry
- charge-exchange recombination spectroscopy (CXRS)
- synchrotron emission spectroscopy for runaway electron diagnosis
- LIDAR Thomson Scattering
The ITER-NL consortium is involved in the developemont of the LIDAR Thomson Scattering and the Core CXRS system for ITER. Together with the team at the Fusion Departement of the University Eindhoven, FOM DIFFER and other partners in the ITER-NL consortium (TNO, NRG) play a leading role in the development of the CXRS diagnostic. International collaboration exsits with the institute of plasma physics at the Forschungszentrum Julich, Germany, and on a lower level with CCFE (UK), HAS (Hungary), SCK.CEN (Belgium), MPI-IPP(Germany), CEA (France) and ENEA-RFX (Italy). FOM DIFFER is a partner in the joint effort on the developent of LIDAR Thomson Scattering, led by CCFE (UK). More information on this work can be found at the following websites: