Development of the gas-puff imaging diagnostic in the TEXTOR tokamak

• Published in: Review of scientific instruments Vol. 84; no. 5; p. 053501
• Main Authors: Shesterikov, I, Xu, Y, Berte, M, Dumortier, P, Van Schoor, M, Vergote, M, Schweer, B, Van Oost, G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.05.2013

Gas puff imaging (GPI) [S. J. Zweben, D. P. Stotler et al., Phys. Plasmas 9, 1981 (2002); R. J. Maqueda, G. A. Wurden et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 74, 2020 (2003)] is a powerful diagnostic that permits a two-dimensional measurement of turbulence in the edge region of a fusion plasma and is based on th...