High power experiments of remote steering launcher for electron cyclotron heating and current drive

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 589-598

  Takahashi, K ^a   Moeller, C P ^b   Sakamoto, K ^a   Hayashi, K ^a   Imai, T ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Corrugatged square waveguide; EC H CD; Remote steering launcher; RF beam steering

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETRY; CYCLOTRON RADIATION; CYCLOTRONS; PLASMA HEATING; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRON CYCLOTRON HEATING;

FUSION REACTORS;

EID: 0042123626     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(03)00042-5     Document Type: Article

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