High power LDA's in general have an emitter line dimension of 1cmx1μm and a beam divergence of 40°x10°, which could not be delivered or focused effectively with common optics. With the ever-increasing needs of high power diode laser sources, it is crucial to obtain high power high brightness diode laser beam with improved optical quality. Although it has been known that beam shaping techniques can be used to achieve this aim, it has been challenging to shape the laser beam effectively and efficiently to deliver it through an optical fiber with high brightness. By using a new beam shaping technology developed recently, however, brightness over 2.4 MW/cm2-str has been achieved by delivering 28W from a 0.1mm multimode fiber. Diode lasers are the most efficient laser comparing with other lasers, and its application in various industrial sectors will become more and more extensive.
We conducted studies of some optical imaging systems having super resolution pupil functions for 0.18 micrometers to 0.1 micrometers lithography as well as for high resolution inspections. The optical systems with these aperture stops have high transmissivity to illumination light beam if appropriate illumination optical systems are used, and have large depth of focus. When this optical imaging method is applied to optical inspection systems, the resolutions of these optical systems can be doubled. The theory of this new optical imaging method is discussed along with the theory and design of illumination optical system. The imaging method will be easy to implement, and can be used for steppers, direct writing lithography, and confocal microscopes.
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