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Status and Experimental Results of the European 1 MW, 170 GHz Industrial CW Prototype Gyrotron for ITER

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Christian Schlatter, Ioannis Pagonakis, Konstantinos Avramidis

In the frame of a collaborative effort between the European GYrotron Consortium (EGYC), the European domestic agency Fusion for Energy (F4E) and the Industrial partner Thales Electron Devices (TED), the first continuous wave (CW) prototype of the EU gyrotr ...

Ieee2016

Dynamic nuclear polarization by frequency modulation of a tunable gyrotron of 260 GHz

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Philippe Cuanillon, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Murari Soundararajan, Dongyoung Yoon

An increase in Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) signal intensity is obtained with a tunable gyrotronproducing frequency modulation around 260 GHz at power levels less than 1W. The sweep rate of frequency modulation can reach 14 kHz, and its amplitude is ...

Academic Press2016

Progress on the upgrade of the TCV EC-system with two 1MW dual-frequency gyrotrons

Stefano Alberti, Timothy Goodman, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ioannis Pagonakis, Jérémy Genoud, Konstantinos Avramidis

The upgrade of the electron cyclotron (EC) system of the TCV tokamak has entered in its realization phase. The MW-class dual-frequency gyrotron design (84 or 126GHz/2s), based on the 140GHz W7-X gyrotron, is finalized and a contract for the manufacturing o ...

IEEE2016

Upgrade of a 30 kV/10 mA anode power supply for triode type gyrotron

Stefano Alberti, Damien Fasel, Blaise Marlétaz, Philippe Marmillod, Albert Perez, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray

The RF power of a gyrotron with a triode type magnetron-injection-gun (MIG) can be directly controlled via the voltage applied between its anode and its cathode. Hence, the performance of this type of gyrotron relies directly on the possibilities offered b ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Upgrade of the TCV tokamak, first phase: Neutral beam heating system

Stefano Alberti, René Chavan, Basil Duval, Damien Fasel, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Olivier Sauter, Alexander Karpushov, Matthieu Toussaint

Experiments on TCV are designed to complement the work at large integrated tokamak facilities (such as JET) to provide a stepwise approach to extrapolation to ITER and DEMO in areas where medium-size tokamaks can often exploit their experimental capabiliti ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Status of the development of the EU 170 GHz/1 MW/CW gyrotron

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Christian Schlatter, Ioannis Pagonakis, Konstantinos Avramidis

The progress in the development of the European 170 GHz, 1 MW/CW gyrotron for electron cyclotron heating & current drive (ECH&CD) on ITER is reported. A continuous wave (CW) prototype is being manufactured by Thales Electron Devices (TED), France, while a ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Generalized radiation boundary conditions in gyrotron oscillator modeling

Stephan Brunner, Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud

A numerical procedure to implement a frequency-independent generalized non-reflecting radiation boundary conditions, GNRBC, based on the Laplace Transform, is described in details and tested successfully on a simple 2 frequency test problem. In the case of ...

Springer2015

TWANG-PIC, a novel gyro-averaged one-dimensional particle-in-cell code for interpretation of gyrotron experiments

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud

A new gyrotron simulation code for simulating the beam-wave interaction using a monomode time-dependent self-consistent model is presented. The new code TWANG-PIC is derived from the trajectory-based code TWANG by describing the electron motion in a gyro-a ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Novel self-consistent linear theory of a gyrotron oscillator and experimental validation

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud

2015

Cryogenic single-chip electron spin resonance detector

Stefano Alberti, László Forró, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Giovanni Boero, Jens Anders, Gabriele Gualco

We report on the design and characterization of a single-chip electron spin resonance detector, operating at a frequency of about 20 GHz and in a temperature range extending at least from 300 K down to 4 K. The detector consists of an LC oscillator formed ...

Academic Press Inc - Elsevier Science2014

From Series Production of Gyrotrons for W7-X Toward EU-1 MW Gyrotrons for ITER

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ioannis Pagonakis, Konstantinos Avramidis

Europe is devoting significant joint efforts to develop and to manufacture MW-level gyrotrons for electron cyclotron heating and current drive of future plasma experiments. The two most important ones are the stellarator Wendelstein W7-X at Greifswald and ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Moment-based, self-consistent linear analysis of gyrotron oscillators

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge

A new model for simulating gyrotron oscillators in the monomode time-dependent linear self-consistent regime is presented. Starting from a nonlinear time-dependent monomode model, the linearization and the following simplification of the model, based on a ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Development Of Advanced Gyrotrons In Europe

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ioannis Pagonakis, Konstantinos Avramidis

The German PMW project and the European EGYC consortium are driving gyrotron developments for the two major plasma fusion experiments in Europe using ECRH, Wendelstein W7-X at Greifswald and the international ITER at Cadarache. 1 MW CW, 140 GHz conventiona ...

Amer Nuclear Soc2013

Nanosecond Pulses in a THz Gyrotron Oscillator Operating in a Mode-Locked Self-Consistent Q-Switch Regime

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud

An experimental study of a nanosecond pulsed regime in a THz gyrotron oscillator operating in a self-consistent Q-switch regime has been carried out. The gyrotron is operated in the TE7,2 transverse mode radiating at a frequency of 260.5 GHz. The 5 W nanos ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

High-Power THz-Waves using gyrotrons: new physics results

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud

2013

Study of the ITER Stray Magnetic Field Effect on the EU 170-GHz2-MW Coaxial Cavity Gyrotron

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ioannis Pagonakis, Fengping Li

In this paper, the effect of the ITER stray magnetic field (SMF) on the operation of the European gyrotron has been studied. The SMFs include the magnetic field generated by neighboring gyrotrons, the ITER tokamak, and also the field perturbations caused b ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2012

Experimental results on a modular-gyrotron operating at 0.26THz for 400MHz DNP/NMR spectroscopy application

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Philippe Cuanillon, Damien Fasel, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémie Dubray, Emile Jacques de Rijk, Alessandro Macor, Falk Hans Braunmüller

2012

Overview of the ITER EC H&CD system and its capabilities

Stefano Alberti, René Chavan, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jean-Daniel Landis, Hartmut Zohm, Laurie Porte, Robert Bertizzolo, Francisco Sanchez, Ioannis Pagonakis, Emanuele Poli

The Electron Cyclotron (EC) system for the ITER tokamak is designed to inject >= 20 MW RF power into the plasma for Heating and Current Drive (H&CD) applications. The EC system consists of up to 26 gyrotrons (between 1 and 2 MW each), the associated power ...

Elsevier2011

THz-waves channeling in a monolithic saddle-coil for Dynamic Nuclear Polarization enhanced NMR

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Emile Jacques de Rijk, Alessandro Macor

A saddle coil manufactured by electric discharge machining (EDM) from a solid piece of copper has recently been realized at EPFL for Dynamic Nuclear Polarization enhanced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance experiments (DNP-NMR) at 9.4 T. The corresponding electrom ...

Academic Press Inc - Elsevier Science2011

Note: Stacked rings for terahertz wave-guiding

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Emile Jacques de Rijk, Alessandro Macor

We demonstrate the construction of corrugated waveguides using stacked rings to propagate terahertz frequencies. The waveguide allows propagation of the same fundamental mode as an optical-fiber, namely, the HE11 mode. This simple concept opens the way for ...

American Institute of Physics2011

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