Surface profile measurement of a diffraction grating by a laser beam scanning interferometer using sinusoidal phase modulation

Osami Sasaki; Takuya Kubota; Samuel Choi; Takamasa Suzuki

doi:10.1117/12.2025328

6 September 2013 Surface profile measurement of a diffraction grating by a laser beam scanning interferometer using sinusoidal phase modulation

Osami Sasaki, Takuya Kubota, Samuel Choi, Takamasa Suzuki

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Proceedings Volume 8839, Dimensional Optical Metrology and Inspection for Practical Applications II; 883906 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2025328
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

It is difficult in interferometric metrology to maintain high spatial resolution over a large measurement region. In this paper this characteristic is achieved by scanning two focused laser beams of about 6 microns diameter over an object surface and a reference mirror surface, respectively, with a rotating mirror, a lens, and a polarization beam splitter. An electric-optic phase modulator generates the phase difference of a sinusoidal waveform of 10 MHz between the two focused beams to calculate the phase of the interference signal. Because the beam focused onto a diffraction grating of 50 microns period is not diffracted strongly, a surface profile of the grating can be exactly measured by this interferometer over the measurement region of 16 mm with the spatial resolution of 2 microns.

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Osami Sasaki, Takuya Kubota, Samuel Choi, and Takamasa Suzuki "Surface profile measurement of a diffraction grating by a laser beam scanning interferometer using sinusoidal phase modulation", Proc. SPIE 8839, Dimensional Optical Metrology and Inspection for Practical Applications II, 883906 (6 September 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2025328

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