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Probe Diagnostics for Plasma Edge Characterization

Guido Van Oost

Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 45 / Number 2T / March 2004 / Pages 391-398

Technical Paper / Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics - Diagnostics / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A505

The remarkable progress in magnetic fusion research in the past three decades has been obtained by building successively larger devices, more powerful heating systems, and mastering the art of plasma positioning, shaping and profile control and of wall surface treatment and impurity control.