Session RP1 - Poster Session VIII.
POSTER session, Thursday afternoon, October 30
Fran Hill Southeast Exhibit Hall, ACC
High power mm-wave sources provide electron cyclotron heating, current drive, and instability suppression in fusion plasmas. CPI has delivered three 110 GHz, 1 MW gyrotrons for ECH and ECCD experiments on DIII-D, each of which has demonstrated reliable operation at 1 MW for pulse lengths up to 5 seconds. CPI has also delivered a 140 GHz, 1 MW gyrotron to IPP for use on W-7X. This gyrotron has produced a peak output power of 900 kW, and pulse lengths up to 700 seconds at 500 kW. Ten consecutive 500 kW 600 second pulses were demonstrated without fault at 25CPI's test facilities could not support long pulse operation at full power, such operation is planned at IPP. The 140 GHz system employs a diode magnetron injection gun, a TE_28,7 cavity interaction mode, an internal mode converter to produce a Gaussian output beam, a low-loss CVD diamond output window, and a single-stage depressed-voltage beam collector to enhance the overall electrical efficiency of the device. Currently, under a DOE development program, CPI is fabricating a 110 GHz, 1.3-1.5 MW CW depressed-collector gyrotron to deliver improved reliability at power levels above 1 MW.