[HTML][HTML] Status and future development of heating and current drive for the EU DEMO

MQ Tran, P Agostinetti, G Aiello, K Avramidis… - Fusion engineering and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The European DEMO is a pulsed device with pulse length of 2 hours. The functions devoted
to the heating and current drive system are: plasma breakdown, plasma ramp-up to the flat …

Influence of the Output Window Reflection on the Performance of W-Band Gyrotron Traveling Wave Tubes

Y Wang, G Liu, Y Cao, W Wang, W Jiang… - … on Electron Devices, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effects of the output window reflection instability on the performance of our designed-band
broadband gyrotron traveling wave tube (gyro-TWT) were studied by the simulation and hot …

Учредители: Национальный исследовательский Нижегородский государственный университет им. НИ Лобачевского, Федеральный исследовательский …

АВ Аржанников, ПА Бак, ВИ Белоусов… - ИЗВЕСТИЯ ВЫСШИХ …, 2021 - elibrary.ru
Проект мощного длинноимпульсного лазера на свободных электронах (ЛСЭ)
субмиллиметрового диапазона длин волн развивается в сотрудничестве ИЯФ СО РАН …

Generation of 1.5 MW–140 GHz pulses with the modular pre-prototype gyrotron for W7-X

ZC Ioannidis, KA Avramidis, T Rzesnicki… - IEEE Electron …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In anticipation of an Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating system upgrade for the
stellarator Wendelstein 7-X, a 1.5 MW-140 GHz continuous-wave gyrotron is under …

Conceptual design of a modular EC heating system for EU-DEMO

A Bruschi, JP Hogge, J Jelonnek, D Strauss… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The European DEMO (EU-DEMO) reactor studies within EUROfusion aim to
develop a fusion power plant concept. The large tokamak device needs an auxiliary heating …

Towards a 1.5 MW, 140 GHz gyrotron for the upgraded ECRH system at W7-X

KA Avramidis, ZC Ioannidis, G Aiello, P Bénin… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2021 - Elsevier
For the required upgrades of the Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating system at the
stellarator Wendelstein 7-X, the development of a 1.5 MW 140 GHz Continuous Wave (CW) …

Simulation of parasitic backward-wave excitation in high-power gyrotron cavities

KA Avramidis, A Marek, I Chelis… - … on Electron Devices, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The possibility of parasitic excitation of backward waves directly in the gyrotron cavity is
demonstrated, by simulation, for two existing high-power gyrotrons. These are the 140-GHz …

Multifaceted simulations reproducing experimental results from the 1.5-MW 140-GHz preprototype gyrotron for W7-X

KA Avramidis, ZC Ioannidis, S Illy, J Jin… - … on Electron Devices, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A multifaceted simulation procedure, addressing the electron beam properties, the beam-
wave interaction, and the internal losses, has been used for the simulation of the …

Suppression of parasitic modes in a cylindrical gyrotron beam tunnel by a wall corrugation with Schroeder diffuser structures

HP Laqua, S Ponomarenko - IEEE Transactions on Plasma …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the help of special edge structures, which correspond to the so-called Schroeder phase
gratings, the electromagnetic field in a cylindrical waveguide can be perturbed in such a way …

Improved Suppression of Beam-Tunnel Parasitic Oscillations by Introducing Lossy Diffusive Surfaces

AI Zelkas, GP Latsas, DV Peponis… - … on Electron Devices, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-power gyrotrons usually suffer from parasitic oscillations, appearing in the beam tunnel
region, which degrade the electron beam quality and the interaction efficiency in the cavity …