Mechanical design aspects of a "long-waveguide" version of the remote steering ecrh upper port launcher for ITER

Fusion Science and Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-113

  Ronden, D M S ^a   Van Den Berg, M ^a   Bongers, W A ^a   Elzendoorn, B S Q ^a   Graswinckel, M F ^a   Lamers, B ^a   Van Nigtevecht, K ^a   Verhoeven, A G A ^a   Henderson, M A ^b  

^a FOM INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA PHYSICS RIJNHUIZEN   (Netherlands)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ITER ECRH; Launcher; Remote steering

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

MECHANICAL DESIGN; REMOTE STEERING;

ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE;

EID: 38949167711     PISSN: 15361055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST08-A1658     Document Type: Article

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