Observation of Electron Temperature Turbulence with a Correlation Electron Cyclotron Emission Radiometer on LHD

Turbulence measurement is important in the study of plasma confinement. We developed a multi-channel correlation electron cyclotron emission (cECE) radiometer system, using an existing conventional ECE radiometer system (RADH) on a large helical device (LHD). The signal received by the RADH was split and fed to our cECE system, and then electron temperatures at three separate radial positions were measured by resolving frequency component with three narrow (200 MHz) band-pass filters. Data taken by the cECE system were compared with those taken by the RADH system. Turbulence-like signals below 10 kHz were detected by the cECE measurement using coherence analysis, but were not detected by RADH measurement. We considered this to be due to differences in the radial separation length between the two channels and in the radial measurement depth of each channel. The cECE system was able to detect higher frequency turbulence because its separation length and measurement depth in the radial direction was shorter than the correlation length of the turbulence.