First results of the J-TEXT high-resolution 3-wave polarimeter-interferometer system

A far-infrared laser polarimeter-interferometer system based on Three-wave technique has been established on the J-TEXT tokamak. The system determines Faraday angle by measuring phase difference between two collinear, counter-rotating, circularly polarized laser beams, and acquires line-integrated electron density simultaneously by phase comparison between the two beams and a third local oscilate (LO) beam. Three seperately pumped HCOOH lasers at 432 μm are adopted as sources, suppling more than 100 mW power output in sum. Parabolic mirrors are used to expand probe beams to 450 mm wide, covering ∼ 80% of plasma cross section, which allows profile measurement with high spatial resolution. First experimental results of the polarimeter-interferometer have been obtained. 12 chords (3 cm chord spacing) simultaneous polarimetric and interferometric measurements are achieved, with phase resolution up to 0.1° at bandwidth of 50 kHz. With the high temporal and phase resolution, perturbations associated with the sawtooth cycle and MHD activity have been observed.