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Proper understanding of turbulent transport is crucial to achieve controlled fusion. Numerically, turbulence can be studied in the gyrokinetic framework, where turbulent fluctuations are separated from the rapid gyration motion of the charged particles. Comparison with experimental observables can then be made through the application of a synthetic diagnostic. In this work we make use of a synthetic diagnostic to simulate measurements from a tangential phase contrast imaging system on TCV. The system measures line integrated electron density fluctuations along a laser beam path that is tangent to the magnetic field. Comparison with nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations using the Eulerian GENE code with realistic TCV geometry, is provided by the synthetic tool that integrates the simulated fluctuations over diagnostic volumes.
