Note: Spectrometer with multichannel photon-counting detector for beam emission spectroscopy in magnetic fusion devices

作者:Lizunov A*; Khilchenko A; Khilchenko V; Kvashnin A; Zubarev P
来源:Review of Scientific Instruments, 2015, 86(12): 126109.
DOI:10.1063/1.4938401

摘要

A spectrometer based on a linear array photomultiplier tube (PMT) has been developed and calibrated. A 0.635 m focal length Czerny-Turner monochromator combined with a coupling optics provides an image of a narrow 0.5 nm spectral range with a resolution of 0.015 nm/channel on a 32-anode PMT. The system aims at spectroscopy of D-alpha or H-alpha lines emitted by a diagnostic atomic beam in a plasma (primarily a motional Stark effect diagnostics). To record a low photon flux of similar to 10(6) s(-1) per channel with the time resolution of 100 mu s, a pulse counting approach has been used. Wideband amplifiers scale single-electron pulses and transmit them to a digital data processing core hardwired in a programmable logic matrix. Calibrations have shown that the aberration-limited instrument function fits to a single detector channel of 1 mm width. Pilot results of passive measurements of D-alpha light emission from the plasma confined in a magnetic trap are presented.

  • 出版日期2015-12