LOWER-HYBRID PLASMA-HEATING WITH ANISOTROPIC TEMPERATURE

Experimental results on RF power absorption due to lower hybrid resona nce with anisotropic plasma temperature are presented. It has been sho wn that when the wave vector is transverse to the applied magnetic fie ld, the plasma heating occurs along the perpendicular direction where the anisotropy in the temperatures was expected. Drift wave was observ ed and it led to a stochastic heating near the resonance layer causing an isotropy on the temperature.