EPJ Web of Conferences 32, 02008 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20123202008

A new mechanism for sawtooth period control

¹ FOM Institute DIFFER (Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research) PO Box 1207, 3430 BE Nieuwegein, the Netherlands
² Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas, Association EURATOM-Confédération Suisse, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
³ Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands
⁴ Vrije Universiteit Brussel, dept. ELEC, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

^a e-mail: m.lauret@tue.nl

Abstract

Experiments and simulations show that the sawtooth period can be influenced and precisely tuned by modulated ECCD power.