Installation and operation of the 400 kW 140 GHZ gyrotron on the MTX experiment

This paper describes the installation and operation of the 400 kW 140 GHz gyrotron used for plasma heating on the Microwave Tokamak Experiment (MTX) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The Varian VGT-8140 gyrotron has operated at a power level of 400 kW for 100 ms in conjunction with MTX plasma shots. The gyrotron system is comprised of a high voltage (- 80 kV) modulated power supply, a multistation CAMAC computer control, a 5-tesla superconducting magnet, a series of conventional copper magnets, a circulating fluorinert (FC75) window cooling system, a circulating oil cooling system, a water cooling system, and microwave frequency and power diagnostics. Additionally, a Vlasov launcher is used to convert the gyrotron TE 15,2 mode to a Gaussian beam. Two versions of the Vlasov launcher have been used on the gyrotron, one version designed by LLNL and one version designed by the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI). The Varian VGT-8140 gyrotron has been installed on the MTX tokamak experiment to provide electron cyclotron resonant heating (ECRH) of the tokamak plasma. The gyrotron has been operated with the tokamak for periods as long as 100 ms at power levels of 400 kW. he gyrotron will also be used as the RF driver for the intense microwave prototype (IMP) wiggler associated with the electron test accelerator (ETA). In this configuration, the IMP wiggler will produce multigigawatt, 140 GHz, 50-ns pulses at a 5-kHz repetition rate. The plasma heating efficiency of the long RF pulse from the gyrotron can then be compared with the higher power but shorter RF pulses from the wiggler. The M2 mirror can be reversed to determine whether the gyrotron microwave beam or the IMP wiggler microwave beam is directed into the MTX tokamak. When the IMP wiggler is in operation, the gyrotron will be used as the master oscillator to drive the wiggler