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Plasma Science Lab (Collaborative Chair, NIFS)
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A lab that measures high-temperature plasmas using lasers and microwaves.
AboutAbout the lab
Measuring fusion plasmas with light and radio waves
The Plasma Science Lab is a collaborative chair affiliated with the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), and develops methods for measuring high-temperature plasmas confined by magnetic fields and conducts plasma physics research using them.
At the Large Helical Device (LHD) of NIFS, the lab has worked on measurements using lasers and microwaves.
The lab's website states that LHD experiments were completed in December 2025, and that the lab will now work on analyzing the experimental data obtained and developing measurements for the next device.
Research is carried out at the National Institute for Fusion Science (Toki, Gifu Prefecture).
Key terms
- Large Helical Device
- An experimental device at the National Institute for Fusion Science that confines high-temperature plasma with magnetic fields. Abbreviated as LHD
- Turbulent fluctuations
- Irregular fluctuations in quantities such as density that occur within a plasma
NewsLab news
A doctoral student won the Best Poster Award at Kyushu University Energy Week 2025
Press release on the discovery of a new turbulence transition in fusion plasmas
A doctoral student received the Young Scientist Presentation Award from the Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research
A doctoral student won the Outstanding Poster Award at Kyushu University Energy Week 2024
A doctoral student's paper was published in JINST
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops methods for measuring magnetically confined high-temperature plasmas with lasers and microwaves, and uses them to study plasma physics. The lab introduction of the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences lists the following topics: measurement of electron density profiles and turbulent fluctuations with a CO2 laser, measurement of ion temperature with a microwave source, and research on the evaluation of confinement performance and on turbulent fluctuations.
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- ProfessorKenji Tanaka
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