Progress of microwave diagnostics development on the HL-2A tokamak

Sets of powerful microwave diagnostic systems have been developed on the HL-2A tokamak, including 18 subsystems with high spatial and temporal resolutions. These systems have been applied in the HL-2A tokamak experiments to investigate the core plasma transport, turbulence, MHD, energetic particle physics and so on. In this paper, the microwave diagnostics and their applications are reviewed. Some new technologies, including GHz sampling digital correlation electron cyclotron emission (DCECE), multi-channel correlation reflectometers, and solid state terahertz interferometers, are also presented in the paper. (paper)