THE CZECH REPUBLIC - PRAGUE

INSTITUTE OF PLASMA PHYSICS
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
ASSOCIATION EURATOM/IPP.CR

Za Slovankou 3, P.O.B. 17, CZ-182 21 Prague 8

Telephone: +420 2 86890450
Telefax: +420 2 8586389
E-mail: ipp@ipp.cas.cz
URL:   http://www.ipp.cas.cz

Director:	Chráska, Pavel
Associate Director:	Stöckel, Jan

Tokamak Division

Zácek, Frantisek (Leader)
Badalec, Jan
Duran, Ivan
Hron, Martin

Jakubka, Karel
Klíma, Richard
Krlín, Ladislav
Kryska, Ladislav

Pavlo, Pavol
Preinhaelter, Josef
Sedlácek, Zdenek
Stöckel, Jan

Pulsed Plasma Systems

Kolácek, Karel (Leader)
Babický, Václav
Bohácek, Ladislav

Clupek, Martin
Lukes, Petr
Piffl, Vojtech

Ripa, Milan
Schmidt, Jiri
Sunka, Pavel

Prague Asterix Laser System (PALS)

Jungwirth, Karel (Leader)
Kralikova, Bozena
Masek, Karel
Petrzílka, Václav Antonín

Pfaifer, Miroslav
Rohlena, Karel
Rus, Bedrich
Skala, Jiri

Ullschmied, Jirí
Vrba, Pavel

Research activities:
Theoretical and experimental research on the CASTOR tokamak: plasma fluctuations, general theory of wave propagation and absorption in plasmas, new antenna systems for wave-plasma coupling, low-z impurities study, edge plasma studies, modelling of turbulence.

Studies of pulsed systems: high current capillary discharge for coherent x-ray emission, pulsed discharges in liquids and in gases at atmospheric pressure.

Prague Asterix Laser System (PALS): Target experiments with a pulsed terawatt laser beam, investigation of laser-produced plasmas as a source of x-ray radiation and of highly-stripped ions.

Development of plasma diagnostics: optical, microwave, corpuscular, X-ray spectrometry, mapping of the edge plasma by multiple tip Langmuir probes, computer codes for data processing.