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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2010
Illumination system of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus with a birefringent element
Applicants:
Damian Fiolka, Oberkochen, DE;
Daniel Walldorf, Frankfurt, DE;
Ingo Saenger, Heidenheim, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH, Oberkochen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 27/72 (2006.01); G03F 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/702 (2013.01); G03F 7/70116 (2013.01); G03F 7/70566 (2013.01);
Abstract
The disclosure concerns an illumination system of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus. The illumination system includes a mirror arrangement which has a plurality of mirror units and at least one element arranged in front of the mirror arrangement in the light propagation direction to produce at least two different states of polarization incident on different mirror units. The mirror units are displaceable independently of each other for altering an angle distribution of the light reflected by the mirror arrangement.