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Publications associées (30)

First self-consistent simulations of trapped electron clouds in a gyrotron gun and comparison with experiments

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Ioannis Pagonakis, Jérémy Genoud, Francesco Romano

We report on the initial validation of the novel code FENNECS, which simulates the spontaneous formation of trapped electron clouds in coaxial geometries with strong externally applied azimuthal flows and in the presence of a residual neutral gas. For this ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2023

Homogenous power distribution along gyrotron collector walls

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Pierre-François Isoz, François Jean Gaston Legrand, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister

EC RF power sources will play a major role in the future operation of large scale tokamaks (ITER, DEMO). A 1MW/170GHz gyrotron is the standard RF power unit considered for ITER. Even though the efficiency of such devices has been significantly increased th ...

2023

Investigation of the interplay between Electron-Cyclotron waves, suprathermal electrons and turbulence in tokamak plasmas

Jean Arthur Cazabonne

Electron-Cyclotron waves are routinely used in tokamaks to heat the plasma and to drive current through the electron channel. Their unique ability to drive very localized current renders them the main foreseen tool for neoclassical tearing mode mitigation ...

EPFL2023

Experimental Testing of the European TH1509U 170-GHz 1-MW CW Industrial Gyrotron-Long Pulse Operation

Jean-Philippe Hogge, Francisco Sanchez, Ioannis Pagonakis

The upgraded European 1-MW, 170-GHz continuous wave (CW) industrial prototype gyrotron (TH1509U) for electron cyclotron resonance heating and current drive in ITER was tested at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In this work, we report on the ma ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

European 1 MW, 170 GHz CW Gyrotron Prototype for ITER - long-pulse operation at KIT -

Jean-Philippe Hogge, Francisco Sanchez, Ioannis Pagonakis

The upgraded EU 1 MW, 170 GHz continuous wave (CW) industrial prototype gyrotron (TH1509U) for Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating and Current Drive (ECRH&CD) in ITER was tested at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The gyrotron surpassed the pe ...

IEEE2022

A Validation Roadmap of Multi-Physics Simulators of the Resonator of MW-Class CW Gyrotrons for Fusion Applications

Stefano Alberti, Francisco Sanchez

For a few years the multi-physics modelling of the resonance cavity (resonator) of MW-class continuous-wave gyrotrons, to be employed for electron cyclotron heating and current drive in magnetic confinement fusion machines, has gained increasing interest. ...

MDPI2021

Prototype mitre bends of the ex-vessel waveguide system for the ITER upper launcher: Thermal hydraulic simulations and experiments with off-center mm-wave beams

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Anastasia Xydou, Matteo Vagnoni, Humberto Torreblanca Quiroz

On ITER, long pulse gyrotrons are required as a power source for electron cyclotron heating (ECH) and current drive (CD). The microwaves are guided from the gyrotrons, which are placed far from the Tokamak, into the plasma by transmission lines (TLs) and a ...

Elsevier2021

Integration concept of an Electron Cyclotron System in DEMO

Minh Quang Tran, René Chavan

The pre-conceptual layout for an electron cyclotron system (ECS) in DEMO is described. The present DEMO ECS considers only equatorial ports for both plasma heating and neoclassical tearing mode (NTM) control. This differs from ITER, where four launchers in ...

2021

The high-power helicon program at DIII-D: gearing up for first experiments

Alessandro Marinoni

Helicon current drive (CD), also called fast wave CD in the lower hybrid range of frequencies, has long been regarded as a promising CD tool for reactor grade plasmas. A newly installed MW-level system at DIII-D will be the first test of this technology in ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

L-mode plasmas analyses and current ramp-up predictions for a JT-60SA hybrid scenario

Timothy Goodman, Javier García Hernández, Matteo Vallar

In this work, L-mode analyses are performed in order to assess a modeling framework for the prediction of electron cyclotron resonant heating (ECRH) -assisted current ramp-up phases for JT-60SA tokamak hybrid scenario #4-2. We compare two turbulence transp ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Microwave-to-Optical Transduction with Gallium Phosphide Electro-Optomechanical Devices

Simon Benjamin Klaus Hönl

Quantum computing is one of the great scientific challenges of the 21st century. Small-scale systems today promise to surpass classical computers in the coming years and to enable the solution of classically intractable computational tasks in the fields of ...

EPFL2021

Linear studies of spurious backward-wave instabilities in a dielectric-loaded smooth-wall gyrotron beam ducts

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud

Recently developed self-consistent models for beam-wave interaction simulations of a gyrotron oscillator have been extended to study spurious backward-wave instabilities in smooth-wall circular symmetric beam ducts. Starting from a purely metallic case, th ...

IEEE2020

Megawatt power generation of the dual-frequency gyrotron for TCV at 84 and 126 GHz, in long pulses

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Ioannis Pagonakis, Blaise Marlétaz, Ugo Siravo, Jérémy Genoud, Jérémie Dubray, Matthieu Toussaint, Jonathan Sylvain Masur, Christian Moura

In the frame of the TCV Tokamak upgrade, two 84/126 GHz/2 s dual frequency gyrotrons designed by SPC and KIT and manufactured by THALES will be added to the existing EC-System. The first unit has been delivered to EPFL-SPC and tested. In the commissioning ...

2020

RF plasma simulations using the TOMATOR 1D code: a case study for TCV helium ECRH plasmas

Stefano Coda

The 1-dimensional reaction-diffusion-convection code TOMATOR-1D describes plasma production by RF waves inside a tokamak using the Braginskii continuity and heat balance equations. The model simulates self-consistent radial density and temperature profiles ...

2020

Recent experiments with the European 1MW, 170GHz industrial CW and short-pulse gyrotrons for ITER

Minh Quang Tran, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Francisco Sanchez, Christian Schlatter, Ioannis Pagonakis, Jérémy Genoud

The European Gyrotron Consortium (EGYC) is developing the European 1 MW, 170 GHz Continuous Wave (CW) industrial prototype gyrotron for ITER in cooperation with Thales Electron Devices (TED) and Fusion for Energy (F4E). This conventional, hollow-cavity gyr ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Design and implementation of quasi-optical components for the upgrade of the TCV EC-system

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Laurie Porte, Matthieu Toussaint, Florian Ramseyer

The EC-system of the TCV tokamak is progressively being upgraded with the addition of two MW-class dual-frequency gyrotrons (84 and 126 GHz/2s/1MW). In order to connect the two gyrotrons to the existing low field side and top launchers, new waveguide routi ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

High-power gyrotrons for electron cyclotron heating and current drive

Minh Quang Tran

In many tokamak and stellarator experiments around the globe that arc investigating energy production via controlled thermonuclear fusion, electron cyclotron heating and current drive (ECH&CD) are used for plasma start-up, heating, non-inductive current dr ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Overview on recent progress in magnetron injection gun theory and design for high power gyrotrons

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Trach-Minh Tran, Ioannis Pagonakis, Jérémy Genoud, François Jean Gaston Legrand

The magnetron injection gun (MIG) is one of the most critical subcomponents in gyrotrons. The electron beam, which has the primary role on the gyrotron operation, is generated and configured at this part of the tube. The electron beam properties determine ...

E D P SCIENCES2019

From W7-X Towards ITER and Beyond: 2019 Status on EU Fusion Gyrotron Developments

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Ioannis Pagonakis, Blaise Marlétaz, Jérémy Genoud, Jérémie Dubray, François Jean Gaston Legrand

In Europe, the research and development with main focus on achieving robust industrial designs of series gyrotrons for electron cyclotron heating and current drive of today's nuclear fusion experiments and towards a future DEMOnstration fusion power plant ...

IEEE2019

Enhanced operation of the Eu Ec test facility

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Albert Perez, Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray

A Test Facility (TF) has been designed and installed at SPC to allow for the commissioning of the EU gyrotrons developed in view of their integration to the ITER EC system. The first phase of operation of this TF was dedicated to the development of the EU ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Publications associées (30)

First self-consistent simulations of trapped electron clouds in a gyrotron gun and comparison with experiments

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Ioannis Pagonakis, Jérémy Genoud, Francesco Romano

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2023

Homogenous power distribution along gyrotron collector walls

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Pierre-François Isoz, François Jean Gaston Legrand, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister

2023

Investigation of the interplay between Electron-Cyclotron waves, suprathermal electrons and turbulence in tokamak plasmas

Jean Arthur Cazabonne

EPFL2023

Prototype mitre bends of the ex-vessel waveguide system for the ITER upper launcher: Thermal hydraulic simulations and experiments with off-center mm-wave beams

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Anastasia Xydou, Matteo Vagnoni, Humberto Torreblanca Quiroz

Elsevier2021