Beam combiner for transient phenomena measurement in the JT-60 Thomson scattering diagnostic

Abstract

A beam combine method of two ruby lasers has been developed for the JT-60 Thomson scattering system, that is mainly composed of a polarizer plate and a Faraday rotator. By this method we have achieved a minimum time interval of 2 ms between the two laser pulses homogeneously combined. Also a high energy transmission of more than 95% has been attained. As a result, transient phenomena measurement can be available especially for pellet-injected plasmas by using the Thomson scattering system. The beam combine method applied to JT-60 is very attractive in terms of upgrading a Thomson scattering system to a high repetition diagnostic without any essential change of the existing equipment, and has been working with no serious trouble since 1989. The application of this method to a multilaser system with three or more lasers is also discussed for the practical purpose of improving a repetition rate of high power pulsed laser.