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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1999
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An exposure apparatus having an illumination light source and a stage for an exposed object to be mounted thereon, in which at least one of an illumination optical system and a projection optical system includes a plurality of optical articles in each of which a first optically transparent thin layer and a second optically transparent thin layer having a higher refractive index than that of the first optically transparent thin layer are laminated on a surface of a substrate. At least one of the first and second optically transparent thin layers includes a layer of oxides or fluorides and atoms of at least one selected from the group consisting of krypton, xenon and radon, in which the content of the atoms is within a range of from 0.5 atomic ppm to 1 atomic %, inclusive.