Hitachi, Ltd.

Massaaki Ito

Tsuneo Terasawa

Norio Saitou

Eiji Takeda

Soichi Katagiri

Minoru Hidaka

Eiichi Seya

A technique and exposure apparatus measures, with a high degree of accuracy, figure and placement errors of individual optical elements constituting optics embedded inside of an exposure apparatus or the like, with the optics kept in an embedded state as they are. The system measures the distribution of wavefront distortions in the optics while changing the positions of a light source and an image point inside an exposure field of the optics being observed. Optimal displacements of reflective surfaces constituting the optics are then found by calculation based on the measured distribution of wave-front distortions. Finally, the positions of the reflective surfaces are corrected in accordance with the calculated optimal displacements. The positions of the reflective surfaces are corrected by individually controlling displacements output by a plurality of actuators attached to each reflective surface and by mechanically modifying appropriate portions of the reflective surfaces.

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Murayama, Japan

Massaaki Ito