WO2007044786A3 - Interferometry method and system including spectral decomposition - Google Patents

Interferometry method and system including spectral decomposition Download PDF

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WO2007044786A3
WO2007044786A3 PCT/US2006/039681 US2006039681W WO2007044786A3 WO 2007044786 A3 WO2007044786 A3 WO 2007044786A3 US 2006039681 W US2006039681 W US 2006039681W WO 2007044786 A3 WO2007044786 A3 WO 2007044786A3
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Groot Peter De
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    • G01B9/00—Measuring instruments characterised by the use of optical techniques
    • G01B9/02—Interferometers
    • G01B9/02041—Interferometers characterised by particular imaging or detection techniques
    • G01B9/02044—Imaging in the frequency domain, e.g. by using a spectrometer
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    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
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    • G01B9/00—Measuring instruments characterised by the use of optical techniques
    • G01B9/02—Interferometers
    • G01B9/02015—Interferometers characterised by the beam path configuration
    • G01B9/02022—Interferometers characterised by the beam path configuration contacting one object by grazing incidence
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01B—MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS
    • G01B9/00—Measuring instruments characterised by the use of optical techniques
    • G01B9/02—Interferometers
    • G01B9/02034—Interferometers characterised by particularly shaped beams or wavefronts
    • G01B9/02035—Shaping the focal point, e.g. elongated focus
    • G01B9/02037—Shaping the focal point, e.g. elongated focus by generating a transverse line focus
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01B—MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS
    • G01B9/00—Measuring instruments characterised by the use of optical techniques
    • G01B9/02—Interferometers
    • G01B9/02055—Reduction or prevention of errors; Testing; Calibration
    • G01B9/0207—Error reduction by correction of the measurement signal based on independently determined error sources, e.g. using a reference interferometer
    • G01B9/02072—Error reduction by correction of the measurement signal based on independently determined error sources, e.g. using a reference interferometer by calibration or testing of interferometer
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    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01B—MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS
    • G01B9/00—Measuring instruments characterised by the use of optical techniques
    • G01B9/02—Interferometers
    • G01B9/0209—Low-coherence interferometers
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    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01B—MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS
    • G01B2290/00—Aspects of interferometers not specifically covered by any group under G01B9/02
    • G01B2290/70—Using polarization in the interferometer

Abstract

A method that includes directing measurement light to reflect from a measurement surface and combining the reflected measurement light with reference light, where the measurement light and reference light are derived from a common source, and there is a non-zero optical path length difference between the measurement light and reference light that is greater than a coherence length of the measurement light. The method further includes spectrally dispersing the combined light onto a multi-element detector to detect a spatially-varying intensity pattern, determining spatial information about the measurement surface based.on the spatially-varying intensity pattern, and outputting the spatial information.
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