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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
S. V. Polosatkin et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 2005 | Pages 179-182
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A634
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Thomson scattering system for measurements of radial profile of plasma density (range 0.5-5×1021 m-3) with temperature up to 2 keV was developed at the GOL-3 facility. First harmonics (=1.06 m) of Nd glass laser is used. Scattered light from different points of plasma cross-section is imaged to a set of quartz optical fibers and detected by avalanche photodiodes.During the first 10 s after start of the relativistic electron beam injection the intense light emission from plasma is observed. Single powerful laser pulse is used for providing of good signal-noise ratio in this period. Later the plasma radiation intensity decreases and the less powerful laser oscillator operated in multiple-pulsed regime is used.Description of the diagnostics, methodical aspects of operation, and results of the density dynamics measurements are presented in the paper.
