W-band system-on-chip electron cyclotron emission imaging system on DIII-D

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作者
Zhu, Y. [1 ]
Yu, J-H [1 ]
Yu, G. [1 ]
Ye, Y. [1 ]
Tobias, B. [2 ]
Diallo, A. [3 ]
Kramer, G. [3 ]
Ren, Y. [3 ]
Domier, C. W. [1 ]
Li, X. [4 ]
Luo, C. [1 ]
Chen, M. [1 ]
Chen, Y. [1 ]
Luhmann, N. C., Jr. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[2] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[3] Princeton Plasma Phys Lab, POB 451, Princeton, NJ 08543 USA
[4] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230000, Anhui, Peoples R China
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REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS | 2020年 / 91卷 / 09期
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10.1063/5.0018082
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
Monolithic, millimeter-wave "system-on-chip" (SoC) technology has been employed in heterodyne receiver integrated circuit radiometers in a newly developed Electron Cyclotron Emission Imaging (ECEI) system on the DIII-D tokamak for 2D electron temperature profile and fluctuation evolution diagnostics. A prototype module operating in the E-band (72 GHz-80 GHz) was first employed in a 2 x 10 element array that demonstrated significant improvements over the previous quasi-optical Schottky diode mixer arrays during the 2018 operational campaign of the DIII-D tokamak. For compatibility with International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor relevant scenarios on DIII-D, the SoC ECEI system was upgraded with 20 horn-waveguide receiver modules. Each individual module contains a University of California Davis designed W-band (75 GHz-110 GHz) receiver die that integrates a broadband low noise amplifier, a double balanced down-converting mixer, and a x4 multiplier on the local oscillator (LO) chain. A x2 multiplier and two IF amplifiers are packaged and selected to further boost the signal strength and downconvert the signal frequency. The upgraded W-band array exhibits >30 dB additional gain and 20x improvement in noise temperature compared with the previous Schottky diode radio frequency mixer input systems; an internal 8 times multiplier chain is used to bring down the LO frequency below 12 GHz, thereby obviating the need for a large aperture for quasi-optical LO coupling and replacing it with coaxial connectors. Horn-waveguide shielding housing avoids out-of-band noise interference on each individual module. The upgraded ECEI system plays an important role for absolute electron temperature evolution and fluctuation measurements for edge and core region transport physics studies.
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