Molybdenum emission from impurity-induced m = 1 snake-modes on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak

Rev Sci Instrum. 2012 Oct;83(10):10E517. doi: 10.1063/1.4733731.

Abstract

A suite of novel high-resolution spectroscopic imaging diagnostics has facilitated the identification and localization of molybdenum impurities as the main species during the formation and lifetime of m = 1 impurity-induced snake-modes on Alcator C-Mod. Such measurements made it possible to infer, for the first time, the perturbed radiated power density profiles from which the impurity density can be deduced.