Imaging free-falling particles for multipoint measurement of plasma fluctuations.

Rev Sci Instrum

Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.

Published: August 2015

The measurement of plasma fluctuations by insertable probes is sometimes limited by the perturbation of the probe on the plasma, and some non-invasive diagnostics such as photodiode arrays can only measure integrated values. In this paper, we introduce a new approach to plasma fluctuation measurement using small, free-falling particles imaged with a fast camera to provide simultaneous multipoint measurement of visible light emissions surrounding each particle. We find that the fluctuations measured in this manner are in agreement with existing diagnostics, and the particle signals are correlated to those measured on inserted floating potential probes. Signals from multiple particles demonstrate an application of multipoint measurement of the plasma spatial structure and coherence.

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