16–18 Feb 2027
CEA Cadarache and ITER Cadarache sites
Europe/Berlin timezone

Call for Contributions by 20 November 2026

Please register your interest by 20 November 2026 through the registration page to participate in the workshop in person or remotely, as well as your interest to give a presentation on the different subjects listed in the agenda. Topics not listed below but related to ECRH systems can be proposed as well. 

Gyrotrons Commissioning

- Last results
- Commissioning activities
- Issues and Lessons Learned
- Ideas for Improvement

Further Developments on the EC Systems and parts (EC Sources, TLs, Launchers, Control, Windows, Dummy Loads and commisioning)

- Evolutions and R&D activities
- Technological challenges
- Operation Challenges
- Modelling
- Problems and possible solutions

Interlock Protection Systems

- Commissioning experience
- Main interlocks and protections
- Beam-current control
- Mode-recovery implementation
- Phase locking for beam combining
- Operation control solutions
 
Critical EC Evolutions and Technologies

- Global reliability: power control and single gyrotron loss compensation
- Higher power (1.5 - 2 MW)  and higher efficiency gyrotrons (> 50 %)
 - Gyrotron cavity cooling
- Optimal power distribution at collector surface 
- Higher Frequency: high field fusion devices
- Harmonics Breakdown in Launchers
- Steering mechanisms speed and accuracy
Workforce and Increasing Needs

- High increase on new EC plants
- Industrialisation
- Knowledge transfer
- Seniority and early careers
- Need for new EC testing platforms
- Presonnel needs, and profiles (technicians, engineers and physicists)
- Internships and mobility