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Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 09, 2016
Applicant:

Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh, Oberkochen, DE;

Inventors:

Matthias Manger, Aalen-Unterkochen, DE;

Florian Baumer, Oberkochen, DE;

Assignee:

Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH, Oberkochen, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 5/02 (2006.01); G01J 1/42 (2006.01); G01J 1/04 (2006.01); G02B 5/20 (2006.01); H05G 2/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 1/4257 (2013.01); G01J 1/0418 (2013.01); G02B 5/205 (2013.01); H05G 2/005 (2013.01); H05G 2/008 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and a method for analyzing a light beam guided by a beam guiding optical unit. The system has a graduated neutral density filter arrangement (), which is arranged in a far field plane of the beam guiding optical unit and has at least one graduated neutral density filter () having a spatially varying transmission, and a light intensity sensor arrangement having at least one light intensity sensor (), which is arranged in a near field plane of the beam guiding optical unit and is configured to measure (), for each graduated neutral density filter () of the graduated neutral density filter arrangement (), a light intensity transmitted by each graduated neutral density filter.


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