Ben LeBlanc maintains the Multi-point Thomson Scattering system and associated software at PPPL. The information here is UNOFFICIAL and should not taken as authoritative -- see Dr. LeBlanc for any serious use of this data.

• See the note from Ben on MPTS data from 3/18/2003.
• Example from a Linux portal or nstxpool computer of MPTS profiles with error bars:

     sunfire16% module load nstx
     sunfire16% idl
     IDL> addpath
     IDL> device,decompose=0	; needed if monitor not set to 8-bit color
  
     IDL> plotts,ts(108730)
     "Best" analysis is of "Preliminary" quality 
     Tue Aug  5 15:10:50 2003
  
  

  ("setup" can be defined in your .cshrc file by "source /etc/cshrc.default")

  

  These plots can be made from the web using mptsplots.html.

• For a 2-D plot from the web, in mdssignals.html enter \activespec::tes into the signal field, and, say, 109070 into the shot field, and hit plot to get

  

  Use \activespec::nes to see the density.

• An example of a scope of Maximum Values across radii and over time.

  (NOTE: Because of numerical fitting issues, these representations may be misleading, especially near the edges!)

     sunfire15% dwscope -def $NSTXUSR/util/scopes/mptsallmaxes.scope
  

  enter 109070 in the Shot box at the bottom and get:

  

  mptsallmaxes.scope may also be entered in the Scope Filename field of mdsscope.html

  $NSTXUSR/util/scopes/mptsprofiles.scope displays the electron temperature and density profiles at 10 time steps.

• Thomson Scattering profiles may be visually correlated with flux plots from EFIT by using EfitFlux.html. Check the box labeled "Also Plot Thomson Scattering Profiles for Te and Ne."

  

  Animations of this data can be created from IDL -- see efitmovies.pro.

• Animations of MPTS profiles can be created from IDL -- using mptscam.pro. (Note that the corresponding Fast Camera images are currently only on-line for a few shots.)

  

Edited 11-Aug-2009 by: Bill Davis