Design of 170 GHz, 1.5-MW conventional cavity gyrotron for plasma heating

Abstract

In this paper, an overall conceptual design of a 170 GHz, 1.5 MW, continuous wave (CW) conventional cavity gyrotron is presented for plasma heating applications in thermonuclear fusion reactors. The operating mode is carefully selected with due consideration of design constraints/goals and mode competition. The TE36,10 mode is selected as operating mode for the present study. A weakly tapered conventional cavity resonator is considered for the study of the RF-behavior. Single mode and multimode time dependence self-consistence calculations are carried out for power and efficiencies. In addition, the design studies of a triode type magnetic injection gun, magnetic guidance system, output system that consists of an optimized nonlinear taper, a highly efficient dimpled-wall quasi-optical launcher and a single disk Chemical Vapor Deposition diamond window are also reported. Results obtained support an output power of 1.5-MW CW power at 170 GHz with a conventional cavity gyrotron with 35% efficiency without single stage depressed collector. This device is intended to serve as heating source for international thermonuclear experimental reactor-like machines. © 2014 IEEE.