Updates and Future Development of The He/Ne Beam Diagnostic for Line Ratio Spectroscopy in the Island Divertor of Wendelstein 7-X*

A line-ratio spectroscopy system based on a thermal helium collisional radiative model (CRM) has been implemented to enable measurement of n$_{\mathrm{e}}$ and T$_{\mathrm{e}}$ above the horizontal divertor targets in two modules of the Wendelstein 7-X optimized stellarator. Neon has also been implemented in select discharges to investigate the expansion of the measurement envelope of the diagnostic. In this work, modeling results are presented for standard attached and detached conditions in the divertor of Wendelstein 7-X to show the helium and neon emissivity as a function of radial position above the divertor target. Also shown is a first-time comparison between helium beam data and reciprocating Langmuir probe data using a novel flux coordinate system within the standard 5/5 island chain.