Photocopying – Projection printing and copying cameras – Illumination systems or details
Reexamination Certificate
2007-04-03
2007-04-03
Nguyen, Henry Hung (Department: 2851)
Photocopying
Projection printing and copying cameras
Illumination systems or details
C355S053000, C355S067000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11336945
ABSTRACT:
A polarization rotator and crystalline quartz plate for use with an optical imaging system. The system has several imaging optical components (L1–L16) sequentially arranged along an optical axis (16), a means for creating radially polarized light arranged at a given location in that region extending up to the last of said imaging optical components, and a crystalline-quartz plate employable in such a system. A polarization rotator (14) for rotating the planes of polarization of radially polarized light and transforming same into tangentially polarized light, particularly in the form of a crystalline-quartz plate as noted above, is provided at a given location within a region commencing where those imaging optical components that follow said means for creating radially polarized light in the optical train are arranged. The optical imaging system is particularly advantageous when embodied as a microlithographic projection exposure system.
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Carl-Zeiss SMT AG
Nguyen Henry Hung
Sughrue & Mion, PLLC
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