Monitoring system to estimate the chord-averaged plasma electron temperature

A new technique for estimating the magnitude of the chord-averaged plasma electron temperature is described, permitting improved time resolution. A CAMAC software package VEKTOR has been developed to implement this algorithm. The measuring circuit has been checked in a test system for input voltages up to 400 kHz from a spectrometric signal simulator. The operating system is controlled by an IBM PC/AT. The program is constructed using standard routines. It includes an asynchronous data acquisition package, a universal parallel program interpreter, a menu of processing programs, and data visualization. The software runs under MS-DOS (version 3.3). 1 ref., 3 figs