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A schematic drawing of Mirnov coils in a tokamak chamber. The poloidal Mirnov coils encircle the plasma flow, the poloidal coils follow the plasma flow.

For clarity the drawing shows only four Mirnov coils in poloidal and toroidal arrays, but there can be more, even tens of coils in one array.

Drawing based on:

• T. Markovic, Magnetic field configurations and their measurement on tokamak GOLEM, Bachelor thesis, Czech Technical University in Prague, 2010
• G. Zhuang et al., Recent research work on the J-TEXT tokamak'', G. Zhuang et al 2013 Nucl. Fusion 53 104014
• Ezekial A. Unterberg, Accesing High Normalized Current in an Ultra-low-aspect-ratio Torus, PhD thesis, The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2007, ISBN 9780549385226

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