Application of diamond window for infrared laser diagnostics in a tokamak device

Kawano, Yasunori; Chiba, Shinichi; Inoue, Akira*

Review of Scientific Instruments, 75(1), p.279 - 280, 2004/01

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1633990

It has been successful to apply CVD diamond plate as the vacuum window for infrared CO laser interferometry and polarimetry for electron density measurement in the JT-60U tokamak. In comparison with to use the conventional zinc-selenide windows, the Faraday rotation component at diamond windows was small as negligible. This resulted in the improvement of the Faraday rotation measurement for a tokamak plasma by polarimetry.