Developments of Equipment for sub- THz Collective Thomson Scattering in LHD

Equipment for sub- THz collective Thomson scattering diagnostics in the Large Helical Device has been developed. The probe beam source is a 303 GHz Gyrotron. It operates in a pulse mode. No parasitic mode is excited during the whole pulse width including the turn-on and turn-off phases. Single mode oscillation at several frequencies has been confirmed. For power transmission, a 3.5 inch corrugated waveguide line installed for electron heating with lower frequency gyrotrons will be used. The test with the 303 GHz gyrotron has shown a sufficiently low transmission loss.