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- Title
EUV radiation characteristics of a CO<sub>2</sub> laser produced Xe plasma.
- Authors
Komori, H.; Ueno, Y.; Hoshino, H.; Ariga, T.; Soumagne, G.; Endo, A.; Mizoguchi, H.
- Abstract
A CO2 laser-driven Xe liquid jet plasma has been studied with respect to its usability as a EUV lithography light source. A short-pulse TEA-CO2 master oscillator power amplifier system (MOPA) and a pre-pulse Nd:YAG laser were used for the plasma generation. The dependence of EUV plasma parameters, e.g., conversion efficiency, plasma image, in-band and out-of-band spectra, on the delay time between the pre-pulse and the main pulse laser was investigated. A maximum conversion efficiency of 0.6% was obtained at a delay time of about 200 ns. In addition, characteristics of fast ions were measured by the time-of-flight method. The peak energy of the fast ion energy distribution decreased significantly at delay times longer than 200 ns. This result is very promising with respect to a collector mirror lifetime extension by magnetic field mitigation.
- Subjects
XENON; PLASMA lasers; ULTRASHORT laser pulses; MAGNETIC fields; TIME delay systems; SPECTRAL energy distribution
- Publication
Applied Physics B: Lasers & Optics, 2006, Vol 83, Issue 2, p213
- ISSN
0946-2171
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00340-006-2172-7