Abstract:
An ellipsometer according to the present invention is provided with: a non-polarized light beam splitter (18) for branching a reflected light (17) reflected by an object to be measured (16) into first and second light paths (18a, 18b); a light detecting element (19) transmitting a polarized light component in a direction of reference in the reflected light branched into the first light path; and a polarized light beam splitter (20) for separating the reflected light branched into the second light path into polarized light components in directions different from the said reference direction. Then, the lights which have passed through the light detecting element (19) and the polarized light beam splitter (20) are received by respective first, second and third light receivers (21a, 21b, 21c). Furthermore, in the method of controlling a coating thickness according to the present invention, first and second ellipsometers (35a, 35b) are provided in the front and in the rear of a coating device (36) arranged along a conveying path of a belt-like plate to be coated (31).
Abstract:
A device and method for determining the identity and concentration of constituent compounds of a test specimen (14) based on polarization effect when the specimen (14) is subjected to randomly or partially polarized light (12). The polarization effect will cause the intensity of light passing through the specimen (14) at one angle of polarization to be different than the intensity of light exiting the specimen (14) at a second angle at a specific wavelength and will result in an elliptically polarized light. The intensity of light exiting the specimen (14) in various planes of polarization is measured by irradiating the specimen (14) with randomly or partially polarized light and then polarizing the light reflected from or passing through the specimen (14) in different planes of polarization angles and measuring (24) the intensity of light in each of the these polarization planes at one or more wavelenghts of light (Fig. 3).
Abstract:
A micropolarimeter comprises an analyzer (1) and a detector (3), typically a photodetector array, having a circular configuration of a number N of sectors. Analyzer (1) and detector (3) form a unit with the analyzer assigning different polarization values to the sectors, which contains no moving parts. For the analyser three different embodiments are proposed: a glass cone, covered with a polarizing thin film stack; a metal grid polarizing array; an array of polarizing waveguides. The micropolarimeter (14) is used preferably in a microellipsometer system which further comprises, also positioned on a microoptical table (6), light collimating means (7) and polarizing means (8). Light generating means (11) may also be integrated into the microsensor system. The microsensor system serves as tool for film diagnostics, especially optical characterization of thin films.
Abstract:
An ellipsometer according to the present invention is provided with: a non-polarized light beam splitter (18) for branching a reflected light (17) reflected by an object to be measured (16) into first and second light paths (18a, 18b); a light detecting element (19) transmitting a polarized light component in a direction of reference in the reflected light branched into the first light path; and a polarized light beam splitter (20) for separating the reflected light branched into the second light path into polarized light components in directions different from the said reference direction. Then, the lights which have passed through the light detecting element (19) and the polarized light beam splitter (20) are received by respective first, second and third light receivers (21a, 21b,21c). Furthermore, in the method of controlling a coating thickness according to the present invention, first and second ellipsometers (35a, 35b) are provided in the front and in the rear of a coating device (36) arranged along a conveying path of a belt-like plate to be coated (31).
Abstract:
A method of and apparatus for rapidly determining the polarisation state of an incoming beam of light, such as from a fibre optic (11). The incoming beam is passed through a beam expander (13,14) and then four separate portions of the beam are passed simultaneously through four Stokes filters (F1,F2,F3,F4) arranged in a common plane. The four filtered beam portions are directed by respective lenses 25 on to four detectors 26 providing electrical signals indicative of the intensity of the respective filtered beams. From these four signals, the Stokes parameters may be deduced.