Gigaphoton Inc.

Hiroshi Furusato

Takahito Kumazaki

Keisuke Ishida

Osamu Wakabayashi

Takeshi Ohta

Masanori Yashiro

Yoshinobu Watabe

Yosuke Watanabe

Natsuhiko Kouno

Satoshi Komuro

Masahide Kato

Tokinori Terao

Yusuke Saito

Junichi Maekawa

A line narrowing module includes an enclosure, a prism which is disposed in an internal space of the enclosure and through which light passes, a mounter which is disposed in the internal space and on which the prism is mounted, a fixing unit which is disposed in the internal space and fixes the prism to the mounter, and a light blocking member. The light blocking member is disposed in the internal space and blocks scattered light in the internal space, the scattered light produced from the light and traveling to the fixing unit.

Line narrowing module, gas laser apparatus, and method for manufacturing electronic devices

A line narrowing gas laser device includes a line narrowing device, an output coupling mirror, a laser chamber arranged on an optical path of an optical resonator, a first holder which supports the output coupling mirror, a second holder which supports the first holder to be rotatable about a rotation axis of the first holder, and an adjustment device supported by the second holder and being in contact with the first holder to rotate the first holder about the rotation axis. The line narrowing device has a characteristic of changing, into a first direction, beam pointing of laser light output toward the output coupling mirror when temperature inside the line narrowing device rises. The second holder and the adjustment device rotate the first holder in a direction in which a change in the first direction in the beam pointing of the laser light is suppressed by thermal expansion.

Line narrowing gas laser device and electronic device manufacturing method

An excimer laser apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a chamber configured to accommodate a laser gas and a pair of electrodes and generate pulse-oscillating laser light when the gas pressure of the laser gas is controlled in accordance with voltage applied between the pair of electrodes, a power supply configured to apply the voltage between the pair of electrodes, and a controller to which a target value of the spectral linewidth of the laser light is inputted, the controller configured to correct the voltage used to control the gas pressure, when the target value changes from a first target value to a second target value, based on a first function having the second target value as a parameter and control the gas pressure in accordance with the corrected voltage.

Excimer laser apparatus and method for manufacturing electronic device

An optical element moving apparatus includes a first holder configured to hold a first optical element, a second holder configured to hold a second optical element and having an inclination that inclines with respect to a first direction in which the second holder approaches the first holder, a guide section configured to be capable of moving the second holder in a direction parallel to the first direction, and an elastic member disposed in a position which is located between the first holder and the second holder and through which a first plane passes, the first plane intersecting the inclination at right angles and being parallel to the first direction.

Optical element moving apparatus, narrowed-line laser apparatus, and method for manufacturing electronic device

A narrowband laser apparatus may be provided with a laser resonator including optical elements for narrowing a spectral linewidth, a spectrometer configured to detect spectral intensity distributions of multiple pulses included in a pulsed laser beam output from the laser resonator, a spectral waveform producer configured to produce a spectral waveform by adding up the spectral intensity distributions of the multiple pulses, a device function storage configured to store a device function of the spectrometer, a wavelength frequency function generator configured to generate a wavelength frequency function which represents a frequency distribution of center wavelengths of the multiple pulses, and a deconvolution processor configured to perform deconvolution processing on the spectral waveform with the device function and the wavelength frequency function.

Narrowband laser apparatus and spectral linewidth measuring apparatus

The line narrowed laser apparatus configured to perform a plurality of burst oscillations including a first burst oscillation and a second burst oscillation next to the first burst oscillation to output a pulse laser beam. The line narrowed laser apparatus comprises a laser resonator, a chamber provided in the laser resonator, a pair of electrodes provided in the chamber, an electric power source configured to apply pulsed voltage to the pair of electrodes, a wavelength selecting element provided in the laser resonator, a spectral width varying unit provided in the laser resonator, and a controller. The controller is configured to measure a duty in a predetermined period before starting the second burst oscillation and a length of a suspension period from a time of ending the first burst oscillation to a time of starting the second burst oscillation, and perform a first control of the spectral width varying unit based on the duty and the length of the suspension period.

Line narrowed laser apparatus

The line narrowed laser apparatus configured to perform a plurality of burst oscillations including a first burst oscillation and a second burst oscillation next to the first burst oscillation to output a pulse laser beam. The line narrowed laser apparatus comprises a laser resonator, a chamber provided in the laser resonator, a pair of electrodes provided in the chamber, an electric power source configured to apply a pulsed voltage to the pair of electrodes, a wavelength-selecting element provided in the laser resonator, a spectral width varying unit provided in the laser resonator, a wavelength variable unit configured to change a selected wavelength selected by the wavelength-selecting element, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the wavelength variable unit based on an amount of control of the spectral width varying unit in a period from a time of ending the first burst oscillation to a time of starting the second burst oscillation.

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Oyama, Japan

Hiroshi Furusato