Internal magnetic field measurement in tokamak plasmas using a Zeeman polarimeter

M JAGADEESHWARI and J GOVINDARAJAN

Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat Gandhinagar 382 428, India

Abstract.

In a tokamak plasma, the poloidal magnetic field profile closely depends on the current density profile. We can deduce the internal magnetic field from the analysis of circular polarization of the spectral lines emitted by the plasma. The theory of the measurement and a detailed design of the Zeeman polarimeter constructed to measure the poloidal field profile in the ADITYA tokamak are presented. The Fabry-Perot which we have employed in our design, with photodiode arrays followed by lock-in detection of the polarization signal, allows the measurement of the fractional circular polarization. In this system He-II line with wavelength 4686 angstrom is adopted as the monitoring spectral line. The line emission used in the present measurement is not well localized in the plasma, necessiating the use of a spatial inversion procedure to obtain the local values of the field.

Keywords: Tokamak; polarimeter; Zeeman effect.

Pacs No. 32.60.+i; 33.55.Be