The recent results from the electron cyclotron heated plasmas in Tokamak a configuration Variable (TCV) was discussed. Results on H-mode and highly elongated plasmas using the newly completed third harmonic (X3) system and achieving up to 100% absorption were also discussed. The X3 system broadened the operational space of TCV with the possibility of heating plasmas at high density, well above the cutoff density of the X2 system.
Henri Weisen, Javier García Hernández, Mikhail Maslov, Samuele Mazzi