Active corpuscular plasma diagnostics

This review provides information about active corpuscular diagnostic methods that are introduced and used with great success in experiments on tokamaks and stellarators. The experimental results obtained by these methods are presented. Attention is called to the features of experimental data processing. We do not pretend to provide a complete analysis of the present issues. The goal is to show the basic trends in the development of active corpuscular diagnostic techniques in recent years and to consider the results of their application. 45 refs., 18 figs., 2 tabs.