High-Performance Ellipsometry With 2-D Expanded Channels for Spectroscopy and Polarization Analysis

We constructed and investigated a high-speed broadband spectroscopic ellipsometric system with 12 polarization channels and a 2-D charge-coupled device. The system without any mechanically moving component completes the measurements of more than 10 000 polarization signals at 889 data points in a wavelength range of 400–800 nm within 150 ms, with a spectral resolution better than 1 nm. An integrated analyzer consisting of 12 subanalyzers was employed to obtain the light of different polarization states simultaneously. The spectral distribution of different polarization channels was acquired by the spectral data acquisition system in parallel mode. Two kinds of data processing methods were applied to analyze the light intensities of different channels to obtain the ellipsometric information and other physical parameters of the material over a broad spectral range. According to the analysis of measurement results of gold and silicon bulk, and tantalum pentoxide film, the reliability of the proposed instrument was verified, showing application prospects in the field where
in situ
spectral monitoring is required.