Publications by Rémy Jacquier

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Negative ion characterization in a helicon plasma source for fusion neutral beams by cavity ring-down spectroscopy and Langmuir probe laser photodetachment

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Gennady Plyushchev, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Riccardo Agnello, Rémy Jacquier

Negative ions are characterized in the helicon plasma source resonant antenna ion device (RAID) at the Swiss plasma center by means of cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) and Langmuir probe (LP)-assisted laser photodetachment. A high density and axially h ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

A double-ended helicon source to symmetrize RAID plasma

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Riccardo Agnello, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Christine Stollberg, Renat Karimov, Simon Pierre Henri Vincent

Neutral Beam Injectors (NBI) for post-DEMO-like reactors must achieve a neutralization efficiency (fraction neutrals/ions) above 70%. To reach this, NBIs based on negative ions are necessary and an innovative concept of this type of injector is based on ph ...

2023

A Variable Structure Control Scheme Proposal for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Jean-Marc Moret, Ivo Furno, Nicola Vianello, Minh Quang Tran, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jonathan Graves, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Alexander Karpushov, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Federico Nespoli, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Wouter Vijvers, Xavier Llobet, Christian Schlatter, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Zhouji Huang, Fabio Riva, Mengdi Kong, Rémy Jacquier, Anna Teplukhina, Roberto Maurizio, Oulfa Chellaï, Francesco Carpanese, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Claudio Marini, Himank Anand, Dahye Choi, Hoang Bao Le, Josef Kamleitner, Joyeeta Sinha, Anton Malygin, Mélanie Preynas, Joshua Nathaniel Hawke

Fusion power is the most significant prospects in the long-term future of energy in the sense that it composes a potentially clean, cheap, and unlimited power source that would substitute the widespread traditional nonrenewable energies, reducing the geogr ...

2019

Numerical and experimental investigations of a microwave interferometer for the negative ion source SPIDER

Ivo Furno, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello

The electron density close to the extraction grids and the co-extracted electrons represent a crucial issue when operating negative ion sources for fusion reactors. An excessive electron density in the plasma expansion region can indeed inhibit the negativ ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Negative hydrogen ion dynamics inside the plasma volume of a linear device: Estimates from particle-in-cell calculations

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello

Negative hydrogen or deuterium ions are the precursor particles used to generate a high power beam of neutrals in order to heat the tokamak plasma core of magnetic fusion devices, inject current, and to some extent control instabilities. In the case of ITE ...

2021

Sliding Surface Based Schemes for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Jean-Marc Moret, Ivo Furno, Minh Quang Tran, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jonathan Graves, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Alexander Karpushov, Bernard Schneider, Federico Nespoli, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Wouter Vijvers, Xavier Llobet, Christian Schlatter, Matteo Fontana, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Fabio Riva, Mengdi Kong, Nicola Vianello, Rémy Jacquier, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Anna Teplukhina, Zhouji Huang, Roberto Maurizio, Oulfa Chellaï, Francesco Carpanese, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Claudio Marini, Himank Anand, Dahye Choi, Hoang Bao Le, Josef Kamleitner, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Joyeeta Sinha, Anton Malygin, Mélanie Preynas, Joshua Nathaniel Hawke

Fusion power may be seen as the energy of the future in the sense that it composes a potentially clean, cheap and unlimited power source that would reduce the worldwide dependency on non-renewable energies. Nevertheless, while nowadays the fusion reaction ...

IEEE2018

Application of Thomson scattering to helicon plasma sources

Ivo Furno, Patrick Blanchard, Alan Howling, Yanis Andrebe, Riccardo Agnello, Rémy Jacquier, Hugo Antoine Georges Arnichand, Alban Sublet

The possibility of performing electron density and temperature measurements in a high power helicon plasma is a crucial issue in the framework of the AWAKE (Advanced WAKefield Experiment) project, which demonstrates acceleration of particles using GeV m(-1 ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Spectroscopic characterisation of H2 and D2 helicon plasmas generated by a resonant antenna for neutral beam applications in fusion

Basil Duval, Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Alexander Karpushov, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello, Gennady Plyushchev, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Claudio Marini

A new generation of neutral beam systems will be required in future fusion reactors, such as DEMO, able to deliver high power (up to 50 MW) with high (800 keV or higher) neutral energy. Only negative ion beams may be able to attain this performance, which ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Latest experimental and theoretical advances in the production of negative ions in caesium-free plasmas

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Riccardo Agnello, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Samir Suweis

This topical review gathers the last updates concerning caesium-free negative ion sources presented during the 63rd Course of the International school of Quantum Electronics of the Ettore Majorana Foundation and European collaborative works related to thes ...

2021

Negative ion source development for a photoneutralization based neutral beam system for future fusion reactors

Basil Duval, Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello, Claudio Marini

In parallel to the developments dedicated to the ITER neutral beam (NB) system, CEA-IRFM with laboratories in France and Switzerland are studying the feasibility of a new generation of NB system able to provide heating and current drive for the future DEMO ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Helicon normal modes in radially non-uniform plasma column

Ivo Furno, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Renat Karimov

Helicon discharges are often considered somewhat mysterious, exhibiting experimental behaviors that are challenging to explain, such as abrupt plasma density jumps, hysteresis, and ‘blue core’ formation, among others. A significant part of the difficulty i ...

2025

Electromagnetic, complex image model of a large area RF resonant antenna as inductive plasma source

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier

A large area antenna generates a plasma by both inductive and capacitive coupling; it is an electromagnetically coupled plasma source. In this work, experiments on a large area planar RF antenna source are interpreted in terms of a multi-conductor transmis ...

2017

Complex image method for RF antenna-plasma inductive coupling calculation in planar geometry. Part I: basic concepts

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier

The coupling between an inductive source and the plasma determines the power transfer efficiency and the reflected impedance in the primary circuit. Usually, the plasma coupling is analysed by means of a transformer equivalent circuit, where the plasma ind ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Helicon wave plasma generated by a resonant birdcage antenna: magnetic field measurements and analysis in the RAID linear device

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello

This paper describes a helicon-wave-sustained plasma generated by a novel birdcage antenna with cosine azimuthal current distribution. The resonant birdcage source maintains a stable intense plasma column from low (300 W) to high (10 kW) steady-state RF po ...

2021

A 1.5D fluid-Monte Carlo model of a hydrogen helicon plasma

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello

Helicon plasma sources operating with hydrogen or deuterium might be attractive for fusion applications due to their higher power efficiency compared to inductive radiofrequency plasma sources. In recent years, the resonant antenna ion device (RAID) has be ...

2022

Magnetic field configurational study on a helicon-based plasma source for future neutral beam systems

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Riccardo Agnello, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier

A helicon-based plasma source is under development and exploration at CEA-IRFM to produce an efficient and dense magnetized plasma column. The final objective of this development is the extraction and acceleration of a blade-like negative ion beam in view ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Complex image method for RF antenna-plasma inductive coupling calculation in planar geometry. Part II: measurements on a resonant network

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier

Measurements and analysis of a radio-frequency planar antenna are presented for applications in inductively-coupled plasma processing. The network of inductive and capacitive elements exhibits high currents under resonance which are efficient for plasma ge ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Ion heating and flows in a high power helicon source

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello, Gennady Plyushchev

We report experimental measurements of ion temperatures and flows in a high power, linear, magnetized, helicon plasma device, the Resonant Antenna Ion Device (RAID). Parallel and perpendicular ion temperatures on the order of 0.6 eV are observed for an rf ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

Cavity ring-down spectroscopy to measure negative ion density in a helicon plasma source for fusion neutral beams

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Gennady Plyushchev, Yanis Andrebe, Riccardo Agnello, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier

Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) is used to measure the D- absolute density produced in the helicon plasma reactor RAID (Resonant Antenna Ion Device) at the Swiss Plasma Center. The birdcage geometry of the helicon antenna produces a homogeneous, high- ...

2018

R&D around a photoneutralizer-based NBI system (Siphore) in view of a DEMO Tokamak steady state fusion reactor

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier

Since the signature of the ITER treaty in 2006, a new research programme targeting the emergence of a new generation of neutral beam (NB) system for the future fusion reactor (DEMO Tokamak) has been underway between several laboratories in Europe. The spec ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2015