@inproceedings{18f8b47dc3904c1895807e3b67b5fcec,
title = "Additive manufacturing of steady-state mirrors for the KSTAR ECH launchers",
abstract = "Electron Cyclotron Heating (ECH) launchers typically use a fixed and a steerable mirror to direct a microwave beam to a small volume of a plasma, for the purpose of heating or current drive. Superconducting tokamaks such as KSTAR are now operating their ECH systems at pulse lengths that require steady-state equilibrium between heat input and heat extraction. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has designed, and fabricated, a set of fixed and steerable mirrors for use in the KSTAR system during the 2015 campaign. During the course of our design work, the emergence of additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing, of metal components prompted a decision to take advantage of this technology in our mirrors.",
keywords = "heating, launcher, metalworking, microwave, plasma",
author = "R. Ellis and J. Hosea",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 26th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering, SOFE 2015 ; Conference date: 31-05-2015 Through 04-06-2015",
year = "2016",
month = may,
day = "31",
doi = "10.1109/SOFE.2015.7482419",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - Symposium on Fusion Engineering",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2015 IEEE 26th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, SOFE 2015",
address = "United States",
}