Over the last years, owing to hardware progress and the development of new
methods, reflectometry has become a common diagnostic on plasma fusion
devices. This paper presents some results obtained with reflectometry on
transport, turbulence and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD). The emphasis is put
on some new results from Tore-Supra. Combining the density profile and
fluctuation measurement, it was shown on Tore-Supra that the particle pinch
inside the q = 1 surface is close to the neoclassical value in ohmic plasma,
while the observed small diffusion is in agreement with a very low level of
density fluctuations inside the q = 1 surface. In β scaling experiments, no
change in the fluctuation levels was found on Tore-Supra, in agreement with
the observation of weak confinement degradation with increasing β. Zonal
flows have been detected by Doppler reflectometry in ASDEX-U and with
correlation reflectometry in T-10. On Tore-Supra, a fast decrease in the density
fluctuation level at high poloidal wavenumbers was meaured with Doppler
reflectometry, suggesting a minor role of electron temperature gradient driven
modes. Various forms of Alfv´en eigenmodes (toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes,
Alfvén cascades and possibly beta Alfv´en eigenmodes) have been detected
with reflectometry in TFTR, JET and Tore-Supra. The density fluctuations
induced by the mode were found to be higher on the high-field side.
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