A new linked mirror device for magnetic confinement experiments is proposed. The new linked mirror device consists of two straight magnetic mirrors connected by two half-torus. The structure of the configuration as a whole is three dimensional because the two linear mirror sections are not parallel. The angle between the two mirror sections generates rotational transform which results in good magnetic confinement of toroidally passing particles. In this way the usual loss cone of the traditional linear mirror machines is eliminated. The single particle confinement is similar to that of tokamaks with most of particles well confined. The calculated neoclassical confinement is very good and is even better than that of an equivalent tokamak.

提出了一种用于磁约束实验的新型链接镜装置。新的链接镜装置由两个由两个半环面连接的直磁镜组成。由于两个线性反射镜部分不平行，所以整个配置的结构是三维的。两个镜面部分之间的角度产生旋转变换，从而对环形通过的粒子产生良好的磁约束。这样就消除了传统线性镜面机器的常见损耗锥。单粒子限制类似于托卡马克，大多数粒子被很好地限制。计算的新古典约束非常好，甚至比等效的托卡马克更好。