The quadratic aberration model used in optical lithography is a natural extension of the linear model by taking into account interactions among individual Zernike coefficients. Although the model has been tested and verified in many applications, the effects of Zernike coefficients under partially coherent imaging are usually obtained by extensive experiments due to the complexity of the model expression. In this paper, a generalized cross triple correlation (CTC) is introduced and a fast algorithm to simulate the quadratic aberration model is developed. Simulations were performed by the proposed CTC-based algorithm with different input Zernike aberrations for binary and phase shift masks with multiple pitches and orientations, which demonstrate that the proposed approach is not only accurate but also efficient for revealing the influence of different Zernike orders on aerial image intensity distributions under partially coherent illumination.
Access to the requested content is limited to institutions that have purchased or subscribe to SPIE eBooks.
You are receiving this notice because your organization may not have SPIE eBooks access.*
*Shibboleth/Open Athens users─please
sign in
to access your institution's subscriptions.
To obtain this item, you may purchase the complete book in print or electronic format on
SPIE.org.
INSTITUTIONAL Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.
PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.