We developed the multi-layer diffractive optical elements to operate with visible wavelength region. The principle of the multi-layer diffractive optical elements and application to photographic lens system, EF400mm F4 DO IS USM, is reported.
Dynamical aspects of an adiabatic piston are investigated, based on the mass ratio expansion of the master equation for the piston velocity distribution function. Simple theory for piston motion and relaxation of an ideal gas in a cylinder turns out to reproduce our numerical experiments quantitatively.
In March 1998, the LHD project finally completed its eight year construction
schedule. LHD is a superconducting (SC) heliotron type device with R = 3.9 m, ap = 0.6 m and B = 3 T,
which has simple and continuous large helical coils. The major mission of LHD is to demonstrate the
high potential of currentless helical-toroidal plasmas, which are free from current disruption and have
an intrinsic potential for steady state operation. After intensive physics design studies in the 1980s,
the necessary programmes of SC engineering R&D was carried out, and as a result, LHD fabrication
technologies were successfully developed. In this process, a significant database on fusion engineering
has been established. Achievements have been made in various areas, such as the technologies of SC conductor
development, SC coil fabrication, liquid He and supercritical He cryogenics,
development of low temperature structural materials and welding, operation and control, and power
supply systems and related SC coil protection schemes. They are integrated, and nowadays comprise a
major part of the LHD relevant fusion technology area. These issues correspond to the
technological database necessary for the next step of future reactor designs. In addition, this database
could be increased with successful commissioning tests just after the completion of the LHD machine assembly phase,
which consisted of a vacuum leak test, an LHe cooldown test and a coil current excitation test.
These LHD relevant engineering developments are recapitulated and highlighted. To summarize the construction of LHD
as an SC device, the critical design with NbTi SC material has been successfully accomplished by these R&D
activities, which enable a new regime of fusion experiments to be entered.
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