Calibration procedure and data processing for a TV Thomson scattering system

Calibration procedures for Thomson scattering systems based on television-like cameras, so-called TVTS systems, are described. The TVTS systems of the Rijnhuizen Tokamak Project (RTP), the TJ-II stellarator, and the Torus Experiment for Technology Oriented Research (TEXTOR) tokamak combine a 10–15 J ruby laser as a source with an intensified charge coupled device camera as a detector. A tungsten strip lamp in combination with an integrating sphere is used to calibrate all ∼105 pixels of the camera relatively to each other. Rayleigh scattering on hydrogen or nitrogen is used to perform an absolute calibration of the complete detection system. Great emphasis is placed on possible systematic errors on the determination of the electron temperature Te and density ne due to the calibration, such as tungsten lamp temperature, detoriation of the detection window, long term stability, laser beam alignment, and detector linearity. The long term stability of the system was tested by comparing different sets of calib...

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