摘要:
A mirror is provided which may include: a substrate; a thermal diffusion layer provided on a principal surface of the substrate, the thermal diffusion layer having a higher thermal conductivity than the substrate; and a reflective layer provided on the thermal diffusion layer, the reflective layer having a lower thermal conductivity than the thermal diffusion layer.
摘要:
An extreme ultraviolet light source apparatus that can eliminate debris adhering to a component such as optical elements provided within a chamber. The extreme ultraviolet light source apparatus includes: a chamber in which extreme ultraviolet light is generated; a target material supply unit for supplying a target material into the chamber; a driver laser unit for irradiating the target material with a driver pulse laser beam to generate plasma; a cleaning laser unit for emitting a cleaning pulse laser beam; and a control unit for controlling an irradiation position of the cleaning pulse laser beam emitted from the cleaning laser unit so as to irradiate a component provided within the chamber with the cleaning pulse laser beam to remove debris adhering to a surface of the component.
摘要:
An EUV light source apparatus capable of easily detecting deterioration etc. of a window of an EUV light generating chamber. The EUV light source apparatus includes a driver laser, an EUV light generating chamber, a window which passes the laser beam into the EUV light generating chamber, an EUV light collector mirror, laser beam focusing optics which focuses a laser beam onto a trajectory of a target material, a temperature sensor which detects a temperature of the window, and a laser beam optics deterioration determination processing unit which determines deterioration of the window based on the temperature of the window detected by the temperature sensor when extreme ultra violet light is generated.
摘要:
The invention relates to a two-stage laser system well fit for semiconductor aligners, which is reduced in terms of spatial coherence while taking advantage of the high stability, high output efficiency and fine line width of the MOPO mode. The two-stage laser system for aligners comprises an oscillation-stage laser (50) and an amplification-stage laser (60). Oscillation laser light having divergence is used as the oscillation-stage laser (50), and the amplification-stage laser (60) comprises a Fabry-Perot etalon resonator made up of an input side mirror (1) and an output side mirror (2). The resonator is configured as a stable resonator.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a two stage laser system in which a desired spectral line width can be obtained at high output even when the integrated spectral characteristic of oscillator laser does not have the desired spectral line width, comprising an oscillator laser device 10 which has discharge electrodes 2 within a laser chamber 1 filled with laser gas containing F2 and emits laser beam which is band-narrowed by means of a band narrowing module 3 arranged in a laser resonator, and an amplifier laser device 20 which has discharge electrodes 2 within a laser chamber 1 filled with laser gas containing F2 and amplifies laser pulse injected from said oscillator laser device 10. In the system, a synchronous time interval having a predetermined spectral line width exists in laser pulse from the oscillator laser 10, and the system is set such that a discharge occurs in the amplifier laser 20 within the synchronous time interval.
摘要:
A buffer gas contained in a laser gas used for an ArF excimer laser mainly consists of He, and Xe is preferably added to the laser gas. Mixture piping divided by valves is disposed on piping running from a chamber to an excimer laser gas cylinder, the mixture piping and a Xe gas cylinder are connected, gas exhaust by a gas exhaust module and opening and closing of the valves are controlled by a gas controller to add a trace quantity of xenon gas to the excimer laser gas. Thus, to remedy a burst characteristic and a spike characteristic of the ultraviolet laser device by adding a trace quantity of xenon gas, the xenon gas can be supplied efficiently into the chamber without modifying existing laser gas supply equipment.
摘要:
A spectrometer has higher resolving power without enlarging a size of the apparatus. This spectrometer has a slit board, a mirror, a collimator lens, a holographic grating, an Echelle grating, a magnifier lens and a line sensor. The holographic grating is arranged to diffract parallel light incident from the collimator lens toward the Echelle grating. The Echelle grating is arranged to reflect the parallel light incident from the holographic grating toward the holographic grating.
摘要:
A light that radiates in the wavelength region of a narrowband laser beam is generated, this light is converted to a collimated beam after passing through a slit, and the converted light is incident on a narrowband module. The outputted light from the narrowband module is condensed, and this condensed light is incident on a light detector. A total reflection mirror is provided in a removable manner on the optical path in front of the narrowband module, the ratio between the output of the light detector in a state in which the total reflection mirror is provided on the optical path, and the output of the light detector in a state in which the total reflection mirror is removed, is determined, and the narrowband efficiency of the above-mentioned narrowband module is inspected based on the determined ratio.
摘要:
A laser apparatus comprises storage means for storing a power source voltage of each pulse at the time of continuous pulse oscillation for one cycle, with each voltage correlated with an identifier which specifies the respective pulse, and output control means for, when a pulse is generated, reading from the storage means the source voltage of a pulse having the same identifier, and performing pulse oscillation on the basis of the source voltage. Thus the influence of the spiking phenomenon during a burst mode operation is eliminated as much as possible, and thereby the accuracy of laser beam machining is still more improved.
摘要:
Aimed at preventing a laser light beam profile from fluctuating, and by using the fact that there is a substantially proportional relation between the beam profile and the charging voltage as well as between the beam profile and the composition or the total pressure of the laser gases, an excimer laser device comprises a laser chamber containing laser gases which are excited by initiating an electric discharge in the laser chamber to output laser light, a beam profile detector for detecting a beam profile of the output laser light, and a controller for controlling a electric discharge voltage (excitation intensity) and composition or total pressure of the prescribed types of laser gases in such a way that the beam profile is shaped as desired based on detection results of the beam profile detector. An excimer laser feedback control circuit detects the output laser beam width and controls the beam width by controlling one or more of the laser voltage, composition of the laser gas, pressure or partial pressure of the laser gas, or feed rate of a laser gas. The laser gas may comprise a halogen, buffer, or rare gas.