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This book deals with the scientific and technological aspects associated with those devices currently exploited for the heating of magnetically confined fusion plasma with intense electromagnetic waves.
The book consists of two parts; the first dealing with the basics elements of plasma physics, the second accounts for electromagnetic sources designed as external plasma heaters. We will discuss particular items, like free electron laser
(FEL) type generators of coherent electromagnetic radiation, designed to provide the supplementary power necessary to ignite, heat and sustain the plasma. They cannot, therefore, be separated from the physical aspects of magnetic fusion and of magnetized plasma, which are initially sketched in the first three chapters.
Before getting into the book plan, we would like to mention that this effort merges four different expertises, which encompass the physics of undulator FELs, the physics of gyrotrons, that of cyclotron auto-resonance maser (CARM), and more generally the physics of charged particles–radiation interaction. The skills of the authors are equally distributed between theoretical, experimental and numerical competencies, but do not include any long-term experience of direct work on plasma
Fusion plasma generalities
Magnetically confined plasma for fusion energy
MHD models, plasma equilibrium and instabilities
Plasma additional heating and Tokamak engineering issues
External additional heating sources
Undulator based free electron laser
An overview of the gyrotron theory
CARM theory and relevant phenomenology
Plasma heating with coherent FEL-like sources
Appendices