The tokamak concept is presently the most advanced concept for a thermonuclear fusion reactor. A fusion power plant will convert the energy released on nuclear fusion reactions of light atomic species (e.g. hydrogen) into electricity. It is a promising and almost unlimited energy source for the coming centuries when other energy resources (oil, coal and uranium) will be exhausted.
In a tokamak a hot plasma is confined in a toroidal configuration by magnetic fields - partly produced by external coils and partly produced by an internal toroidal plasma current. It allows for to produce high enough temperatures in the plasma so that sufficient fusion reaction can take place under controllable conditions. 

In this system S-LINK will be used for the thermographic monitoring of the temperature of tokamak inner wall carbon tiles. The infrared radiation of the tiles is measured by a microbolometer infrared camera. The parallel digital data output of the camera will be connected to the data acquisition system of the TCV tokamak using ODIN type S-LINKs. The camera with 356x240 pixels sends 12-bit data at a frame rate of 50 Hz, which corresponds to a 12-bit word rate of  4.272 MWord/sec (6.408 MByte/sec).

The camera readout system is designed by the Hungarian company CAT-SCIENCE.