Fast visible imaging and study of edge turbulence in the Aditya tokamak

Fast visible imaging is used on toroidal magnetic confinement devices for a wide variety of purposes. This includes monitoring of the plasma evolution, transient effects in the plasma and the study of edge turbulence. Two fast visible imaging systems are installed on the Aditya tokamak. One of the system is for imaging the plasma evolution with a wide angle lens covering a major portion of the vacuum vessel. The imaging fiber bundle along with the objective lens is installed inside a radial re-entrant viewport, specially designed for the purpose. Another system is intended for tangential imaging of the plasma column. During the termination phase of Aditya plasma, large filaments are seen predominantly across all types of discharges. These filaments are apparent just after the strong interaction of the plasma column with the high field side limiter surface almost at the end of the discharge. Statistical features of these filaments and their role during the termination of plasma is studied. Further, there are many interesting visual impacts of either the experiments carried out or several inherent phenomena in Aditya like the ECRH and LHCD operations, dynamics of the runaway dominated discharges and plasma equilibrium at various discharge scenarios. Such observations and the gained physical insights will be reported. (author)