A laser beam is scanned on an object surface with a fast scanning system which consists of a rotating mirror, a flat mirror, and a concave spherical mirror. Propagation direction of the laser beam reflected by a sample surface is detected with a lens and a position sensitive detector. A one-dimensional surface profile of the sample surface is measured by integrating a slop distribution obtained from the propagation direction of the reflected beam. The measurement is insensitivity to mechanical vibrations because of a high-speed scanning of a few milliseconds. The required positioning accuracy of the sample surface is lower than a few millimeters. The measurement repeatability is less than 10 nm.

Date Published: 22 June 2013
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 8769, International Conference on Optics in Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (icOPEN2013), 876919 (22 June 2013); doi: 10.1117/12.2020983

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8769:
International Conference on Optics in Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (icOPEN2013)
Chenggen Quan; Kemao Qian; Anand Asundi, Editor(s)