Direct Observation of the Structure of Global Alfvén Eigenmodes in a Tokamak Plasma
- 29 October 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 53 (18), 1743-1746
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.1743
Abstract
We present the first direct observation of the structure of a driven global Alfvén eigenmode in a tokamak plasma using C laser interferometry.
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