Publications by Blaise Marlétaz

Overview of the TCV digital real-time plasma control system and its applications

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Joan Decker, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Artur Perek

Real-time plasma control systems are at the heart of operation of modern tokamaks. The control system of the TCV tokamak has recently seen a major upgrade in terms of its hardware and software components. Control algorithms are entirely programmed and test ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2024

Upgrade of the neutral beam heating system on the TCV tokamak - second high energy neutral beam

Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Holger Reimerdes, Alexander Karpushov, Damien Fasel, Umar Sheikh, Matthieu Toussaint, Pierre Lavanchy

The TCV tokamak continues to leverage its unique shaping capabilities, flexible heating systems and modern control system to provide a stepladder approach for extrapolations of experimental results from different ma-chines to ITER and DEMO. TCV's configura ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Megawatt power generation of the dual-frequency gyrotron for TCV at 84 and 126 GHz, in long pulses

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Matthieu Toussaint, Ugo Siravo, Jérémy Genoud, Jérémie Dubray, Jonathan Sylvain Masur

In the frame of the TCV Tokamak upgrade, two 84/126 GHz/2 s dual frequency gyrotrons designed by SPC and KIT and manufactured by THALES will be added to the existing EC-System. The first unit has been delivered to EPFL-SPC and tested. In the commissioning ...

2020

New capabilities of the incoherent Thomson scattering diagnostics in the TCV tokamak: divertor and real-time measurements

Basil Duval, Patrick Blanchard, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Xavier Llobet, Joan Decker, Yanis Andrebe, Pierre Lavanchy, Cristian Galperti, Philippe Marmillod, Blaise Marlétaz

This work reports developments of the incoherent TS diagnostic capabilities in the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV). Their goals are to (i) diagnose the TCV divertor region, and (ii) provide Te and ne profiles of the plasma bulk in real-time. These t ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

From W7-X Towards ITER and Beyond: 2019 Status on EU Fusion Gyrotron Developments

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Jérémy Genoud, Jérémie Dubray, Ioannis Pagonakis, Blaise Marlétaz, Konstantinos Avramidis

In Europe, the research and development with main focus on achieving robust industrial designs of series gyrotrons for electron cyclotron heating and current drive of today's nuclear fusion experiments and towards a future DEMOnstration fusion power plant ...

IEEE2019

Manufacturing and Test of the 1 MW Long-Pulse 84/126 GHz Dual-Frequency Gyrotron for TCV

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Jérémy Genoud, Jérémie Dubray, Ioannis Pagonakis, Blaise Marlétaz, Konstantinos Avramidis

An 1 MW long-pulse (2s), 84/126 GHz dual frequency gyrotron has been produced by THALES MSI, France responding to the needs for upgrading the ECH system of the TCV tokamak The initial tests of the prototype carried out at EPFL, Switzerland, have verified a ...

IEEE2019

High-efficiency, long-pulse operation of MW-level dual-frequency gyrotron, 84/126GHz, for the TCV Tokamak

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Matthieu Toussaint, Pierre Lavanchy, Ugo Siravo, Jérémy Genoud, Jérémie Dubray, Jonathan Sylvain Masur

The first unit of the dual-frequency gyrotron, 84-126GHz/lMW/2s, for the upgrade of the TCV ECH system has been delivered and is presently being commissioned. During a first phase, long-pulse operation (TRF>0.5s) has been achieved and powers in excess of 0 ...

IEEE2019

Thomson scattering measurements in the divertor region of the TCV Tokamak plasmas

Basil Duval, Ivo Furno, Patrick Blanchard, Xavier Llobet, Joan Decker, Yanis Andrebe, Pierre Lavanchy, Riccardo Agnello, Steve Couturier, Severino Antonioni

In order to better study conventional and alternative divertor configurations, the TCV Tokamak was recently upgraded. In-vessel graphite baffles were installed in the TCV chamber to delimit a separate divertor chamber from the core that required enhanced d ...

2019

LTCC magnetic sensors at EPFL and TCV: Lessons learnt for ITER

Duccio Testa, Xavier Llobet, Pierre Lavanchy, Matthieu Toussaint, Ugo Siravo, Frédéric Dolizy, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Steve Couturier, Thomas Maeder, Philippe Marmillod

Innovative 3D high-frequency magnetic sensors have been designed and manufactured in-house for installation on the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV), and are currently routinely operational. These sensors combine the Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic ( ...

2019

Langmuir probe electronics upgrade on the tokamak a configuration variable

Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, René Chavan, Pierre Lavanchy, Richard Pitts, Philippe Marmillod, Blaise Marlétaz, Hugo De Oliveira

A detailed description of the Langmuir probe electronics upgrade for TCV (Tokamak a Configuration Variable) is presented. The number of amplifiers and corresponding electronics has been increased from 48 to 120 in order to simultaneously connect all of the ...

2019