https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201715702003
Development of slow and fast wave coupling and heating from the C-Stellarator to NSTX
1 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08543, USA
* Corresponding author: jhosea@pppl.gov
Published online: 23 October 2017
A historical perspective on key discoveries which contributed to understanding the properties of coupling both slow and fast waves and the effects on plasma heating and current drive will be presented. Important steps made include the demonstration that the Alfven resonance was in fact a mode conversion on the C-stellarator, that toroidal m = -1 eigenmodes were excited in toroidal geometry and impurity influx caused the Z mode on the ST tokamak, that the H minority regime provided strong heating and that 3He minority could be used as well on PLT, that the 2nd harmonic majority tritium regime was viable on TFTR, and that high harmonic fast wave heating was efficient when the SOL losses were avoided on NSTX.
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