Report of recent experiments with the European 1 MW, 170 GHz CW and SP prototype gyrotrons for ITER

• Main Authors: Ioannidis, Zisis, Rzesnicki, Tomasz, Albajar, Ferran, Alberti, Stefano, Avramidis, Konstantinos, Bin, William, Bonicelli, Tulio, Bruschi, Alex, Chelis, Ioannis, Fanale, Francesco, Gantenbein, Gerd, Hermann, Virgille, Hogge, Jean-Philippe, Illy, Stefan, Jin, Jianbo, Jelonnek, John, Kasparek, Walter, Latsas, George, Lechte, Carsten, Legrand, François, Pagonakis, Ioannis, Sanchez, Francisco, Schmid, Martin, Schlatter, Christian, Thumm, Manfred, Tigelis, Ioannis, Tran, Minh Quang, Zisis, Anastasios, Zein, Andy
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Collaboration; Consortia; Cyclotron resonance devices; Efficiency; Electric power supplies; Gaussian beams (optics); Nuclear power plants; Plasma; Prototypes; Short pulses
• ISSN: 2100-014X; 2101-6275; 2100-014X
• DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201920304006

The European 1 MW, 170 GHz industrial CW prototype gyrotron has been designed within EGYC (European GYrotron Consortium) in collaboration with the industrial partner Thales Electron Devices (TED) and under the coordination of Fusion for Energy (F4E). This is a conventional (hollow) cavity gyrotron that is based on the 1 MW, 170 GHz short-pulse (SP) modular gyrotron, which has been designed and manufactured by KIT in collaboration with TED. The SP prototype has been tested in multiple experimental campaigns since 2015 and the nominal cavity mode TE 32,9 is exited at 170.1 GHz, producing RF power above 1 MW with 35 % interaction efficiency. The first phase of the experiments with the CW industrial gyrotron was successfully completed at KIT in 2016, verifying most of the ITER specifications. Short pulses (