Extreme-ultraviolet phase-shifting point-diffraction interferometer: a wave-front metrology tool with subangstrom reference-wave accuracy
Applied Optics, Vol. 38, Issue 35, pp. 7252-7263 (1999)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.38.007252
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Abstract
The phase-shifting point-diffraction interferometer (PS/PDI) was recently developed and implemented at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to characterize extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) projection optical systems for lithography. Here we quantitatively characterize the accuracy and precision of the PS/PDI. Experimental measurements are compared with theoretical results. Two major classes of errors affect the accuracy of the interferometer: systematic effects arising from measurement geometry and systematic and random errors due to an imperfect reference wave. To characterize these effects, and hence to calibrate the interferometer, a null test is used. This null test also serves as a measure of the accuracy of the interferometer. We show the EUV PS/PDI, as currently implemented, to have a systematic error-limited reference-wave accuracy of 0.0028 waves (λ/357 or 0.038 nm at λ = 13.5 nm) within a numerical aperture of 0.082.
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OCIS Codes
(120.3180) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Interferometry
(220.3740) Optical design and fabrication : Lithography
(260.7200) Physical optics : Ultraviolet, extreme
Citation
Patrick P. Naulleau, Kenneth A. Goldberg, Sang H. Lee, Chang Chang, David Attwood, and Jeffrey Bokor, "Extreme-ultraviolet phase-shifting point-diffraction interferometer: a wave-front metrology tool with subangstrom reference-wave accuracy," Appl. Opt. 38, 7252-7263 (1999)
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