Recent progresses in the 110 GHz ECRF system on JT-60U tokamak

The 110 GHz ECRF system on the JT-60U started its operation with a 1 MW gyrotron in 1999. Two additional units were completed in 2000. The forth unit was available to generate the total power of 4 MW in 2001. The 1 MW gyrotron is featured by a collector potential depression structure and a diamond output window. The system has four evacuated waveguide lines in 50-60 m length with nine miter bends, each of which has a diamond window near the antenna. One of the recent progresses in this system is to up-grade the gyrotron, whose previous performance was limited to less than 1 MW x 2 sec by a parasitic oscillation in it. Three of four gyrotrons were improved for suppression of the parasitic oscillation by installing a RF absorber in the beam tunnel. The second progress is to reduce the fluctuation in the acceleration voltage for the high power gyrotron operation. The main DC voltage power supply for the gyrotron is not regulated in the system. Before this progress, a large fluctuation in the DC voltage disturbed the stable gyrotron oscillation when four gyrotrons were simultaneously in operation. The third progress is to improve the transmission efficiency from 60-75% to 70-80% by re-adjusting the alignment of the waveguide lines. By these progresses, a generated power on the best unit has reached up to ∼ 1.2 MW x 4.1 s (∼ 1 MW x 5 s) corresponding to ∼ 1 MW (∼ 0.8 MW) for the injected power into plasmas. The total injected power has been 3 MW x 2 sec (∼ 2.8 MW x 3.6 s) using four units. A local profile control has been performed using two steerable antennas at this power level during a plasma discharge. The test of the feedback control of the steerable antenna linked with the perturbation of electron temperature has been successfully done for stabilization the MHD instability such as NTM. (authors)