STATUS OF EXPERIMENTS ON THE EU 2 MW COAXIAL CAVITY ITER GYROTRON PRE-PROTOTYPE AT FZK
This work, supported by the European Communities under the contract of Association between EURATOM and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, was carried out within the framework of the European Fusion Development Agreement. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission.
A coaxial cavity gyrotron, similar to the EU 2 MW tube for ITER, is under investigation at FZK at reduced magnetic field, which limits the expected RF power to 1.5 MW. While in former experiments only 1.1 MW was obtained, now, after the electron gun was changed, parasitic low frequency oscillations were removed and an RF power of 1.3 MW was reached. The power now seems to be limited by another parasitic high frequency oscillation at 160 GHz, which appears simultaneously to the desired working mode.
A second problem of the pre-prototype tube, insufficient Gaussian mode content of the output wave of only 76%, was investigated by verifying the employed tools. The results indicate a problem at the third, phase correcting mirror, while the simulations appear to be acceptable. Finally, to further improve the quasi-optical mode converter a different approach to launcher design using arbitrary wall deformations is underway.
