Electron Cyclotron Heating of Plasmas

Gareth Guest has participated in the development of electron cyclotron heating of plasmas since the early phases of the ECH research program at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where the work focused on heating plasmas in magnetic mirrors and the ELMO Bumpy Torus. He subsequently advocated the use of ECH to enhance the performance of tokamaks at the General Atomic Company, and worked closely with experimental researchers at Applied Microwave Plasma Concepts to explore possible applications of ECH to magnetospheric plasmas and various commercially important plasma systems. This broad experience is reflected in Electron Cyclotron Heating of Plasmas, which seeks to aid researchers in making use of electron cyclotron heating in as wide a range of applications as possible.

1 Historical Overview
2 Magnetic Fields
3 Electron Orbits and Unperturbed Single-Particle Motions
4 Microwave Coupling, Propagation and Absorption
5 Interaction of Electrons with Electrodynamic Fields at Resonance
6 ECH Dominated Plasma Equilibria
7 Plasma Stability in ECH Plasmas
8 Results and Interpretations of ECH Experiments in Mirror-like Configurations
9 Experiments and Applications in Toroidal Magnetic Configurations
10 The ELMO Bumpy Torus
11 ECH Applications to Space Plasmas
12 Some Issues of Microwave Technology Central to ECH

"Presents the fundamentals of ECH that are essential to its successful implementation in applications ... .Exercises are included to aid the reader in making the theory more concrete." ( ETDE s Energy Database , 2009)