Impurity contamination and radiation power have been studied with a vacuum UV monochromator (10–1300 Å) on JFT-2 for typical 160-kA and 18-kG hydrogen discharges. Oxygen has been found to be a dominant impurity element (5–7% of the electron density) and to be radially distributed according to the ionization sequence. The ground level population densities of the O6+ and O7+ ions in the central hot region have been determined, and that of fully ionized oxygen has been also estimated, combined with enhanced bremsstrahlung radiation measurement. The radial profile of the effective ionic charge Zeff has been determined from that of the impurity ions. The Zeff value has been found to be consistent with the value derived from the electrical conductivity. The total power of line radiation from the first resonance transitions of the oxygen ions amounts to 100–50 kW (34–17% of Joule heating power).
Measurement and verification of zeff radial profiles using charge exchange recombination spectroscopy on DIII-D