ILLUMINATION OPTICAL ASSEMBLY, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD

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15332890

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An illumination optical system can form a pupil intensity distribution with a desired beam profile. The illumination optical system for illuminating an illumination target surface with light from a light source is provided with a spatial light modulator which has a plurality of optical elements arrayed on a predetermined surface and individually controlled and which variably forms a light intensity distribution on an illumination pupil of the illumination optical system; a divergence angle providing member which is arranged in a conjugate space including a surface optically conjugate with the predetermined surface and which provides a divergence angle to an incident beam and emits the beam; and a polarizing member which is arranged at a position in the vicinity of the predetermined surface or in the conjugate space and which changes a polarization state of a partial beam of a propagating beam propagating in an optical path.

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NIKON CORPORATION15-3 KONAN 2-CHOME MINATO-KU TOKYO 1086290 ?1086290

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Nakajima, Shinichi Tokyo, JP 53 596
Ooki, Hiroshi Tokyo, JP 21 342
Tanaka, Hirohisa Tokyo, JP 227 4083

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