Acknowledgement
The authors would like to thank the technical staff of the EAST group at the Institute of Plasma Physics for their helpful support during this work. This work was supported by the Development Program of China under Grant Nos. 2019YFE03070000, 2019YFE03070003 and 2022YFE03190200, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 12105184, 11975265, 12175273, and the Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology Program of China under Contract No. 2018-000052-73-01001228, and the Foundation of Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No. Y35ETY130E.
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