Overview of optical designs of the port-plug components for the ITER Equatorial Wide Angle Viewing System (WAVS)

The equatorial visible and infrared Wide Angle Viewing System (WAVS) for ITER is one of the key diagnostics for machine protection, plasma control and physics analysis. To achieve these objectives, the WAVS will monitor the surface temperature of the Plasma Facing Components (PFCs) by infrared (IR)...

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Published in:Fusion engineering and design 2019-09, Vol.146, p.2442-2445
Main Authors: Vives, S., Aumeunier, M.H., Guillon, C., Letellier, L., Doceul, L., Proust, M., Portafaix, C., Loarer, T., Lapcevic, N., Lefevre, N., Moll, M., Medrano, M., Martin, V., Le Guern, F., Piqueras, J.
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Summary:The equatorial visible and infrared Wide Angle Viewing System (WAVS) for ITER is one of the key diagnostics for machine protection, plasma control and physics analysis. To achieve these objectives, the WAVS will monitor the surface temperature of the Plasma Facing Components (PFCs) by infrared (IR) thermography (3–5 μm range) and will image the edge plasma emission in the visible range. It will be composed of 15 lines of sight installed in four equatorial ports (no. 3, 9, 12 and 17) in order to survey at least 80% of the overall area of the vacuum vessel. This paper presents the optical design of port-plug which has to cope with both challenging performances (wide field of view, wide temperature range 200–2000 °C, high measurement accuracy required lower than 20%) and severe constraints such as harsh nuclear environment, complex interfaces. Indeed the optical components are embedded within the ITER Diagnostic Shielding Module, DSM, which is not usual for diffraction limited instruments. It is shown that nominal optical performance of the Port-Plug are limited by the diffraction only. In operation, this design has demonstrated its superiority on the former ones since it is much less sensitive to tolerance variations.
ISSN:0920-3796
1873-7196
DOI:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2019.04.014