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Measurement technology with nanometer scale or higher level precision is the basis and guarantee for developing atomic and close-to-atomic scale manufacturing. Optical measurement has the advantages of high precision, wide range and real-time measurement. The precision of localizing a single imaging spot’s center is not limited by the diffraction limit and could reach nanometer scale. However, the shot noise of light and the dark current noise of the detector bring about a precision limit for optical measurement. Based on the Cramer-Rao lower bound theory, a precision limit estimation method for general imaging profiles is developed in this paper. Taking the typical Airy spot for example, the influences of the parameters such as signal-to-noise ratio, energy concentration and processing method on the positioning precision limit are analyzed, and suggestions and conclusions for improving the measurement precision are given. The precision limit of a laboratory imaging spot is calculated, which verifies that the conclusions are also suitable for the imaging profiles similar to the Airy spot. The research provides the analytical method and theoretical guidance for the application and optimization of optical measurement in atomic and close-to-atomic scale manufacturing.
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图 1 艾里斑的光强分布函数及相应的像素灰度响应示例
Figure 1. Intensity function of an Airy spot and its corresponding pixel response.
图 2 精度极限-像素相位曲面 (a) 中心强度为400, 暗电流噪声为0; (b) 中心强度为400, 暗电流噪声为25
Figure 2. Relationship of the precision limit to the x and y pixel phase: (a) The central intensity is 400, the dark current noise is 0; (b) the central intensity is 400, the dark current noise is 25.
图 3 y像素相位为0.5时的精度极限-x像素相位曲线 (a) 中心强度为400, 暗电流噪声分别取0, 25, 100, 400; (b) 暗电流噪声为400, 中心强度分别取400, 800, 1600, 3200
Figure 3. Relationship of the precision limit and the x pixel phase when the y pixel phase is 0.5: (a) The central intensity is 400, the dark current noise is 0, 25, 100, 400, respectively; (b) the dark current noise is 400, the central intensity is 400, 800, 1600, 3200, respectively.
图 4 精度极限-像素相位曲面 (a) F数为2; (b) F数为8
Figure 4. Relationship of the precision limit to the x and y pixel phase: (a) The F of the optical system is 2; (b) the F of the optical system is 8.
图 5 y像素相位为0.5时的精度极限-x像素相位曲线
Figure 5. Relationship of the precision limit and the x pixel phase when the y pixel phase is 0.5.
图 6 精度极限-像素相位曲面 (a) 计算窗口为3 × 3; (b) 计算窗口为5 × 5
Figure 6. Relationship of the precision limit to the x and y pixel phase: (a) The size of the window used for localization is 3 × 3; (b) the size of the window is 5 × 5.
图 7 实验平台
Figure 7. Experiment platform.
图 8 实验室像斑的精度极限-x像素相位曲线 (a) 能量较集中强度分布; (b) 能量较发散强度分布
Figure 8. Relationship of the precision limit and the x pixel phase for laboratory obtained image spots: (a) The precision limit for a energy concentrated spot; (b) the precision limit for a spot with lower energy concentration.
表 1 不同能量和噪声条件下σall和Δstd结果(保留小数点后四位)
Table 1. Results of σall and Δstd under different levels of spot energy and noise.
σall (Δstd)/pixels $\sigma _{\rm{d}}^{\rm{2}}$ = 0 $\sigma _{\rm{d}}^{\rm{2}}$ = 25 $\sigma _{\rm{d}}^{\rm{2}}$ = 100 $\sigma _{\rm{d}}^{\rm{2}}$ = 400 ${I_{\rm{0}}} = {\rm{400}}$ 0.0125 (0.0001) 0.0136 (0.0003) 0.0157 (0.0011) 0.0217 (0.0033) ${I_{\rm{0}}} = {\rm{800}}$ 0.0088 (0.0001) 0.0093 (0.0001) 0.0102 (0.0004) 0.0127 (0.0014) ${I_{\rm{0}}} = {\rm{1600}}$ 0.0062 (0.0001) 0.0064 (0.0000) 0.0068 (0.0001) 0.0079 (0.0006) ${I_{\rm{0}}} = {\rm{3200}}$ 0.0044 (0.0000) 0.0045 (0.0000) 0.0046 (0.0000) 0.0051 (0.0002) 
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表 2 不同能量集中度条件下精度极限结果
Table 2. Results of the precision limit under different levels of spot energy concentration
RF = 0.25 RF = 0.50 RF = 1.00 RF = 2.00 σall/pixels 0.0335 0.0192 0.0136 0.0247 Δstd/pixels 0.0211 0.0122 0.0003 0.0002 最优精度/pixels 0.0033 (边缘) 0.0065 (边缘) 0.0130 (边缘) 0.0244 (边缘) 最差精度/pixels 0.0803 (中心) 0.0566 (中心) 0.0139 (中心) 0.0250 (中心) 衍射极限/pixels 0.3050 0.6100 1.2200 2.4400
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[1] Fang F Z, Zhang N, Guo D M, Kornel E, Benny C, Liu K, Kazuya Y 2019 Int. J. Extrem. Manuf. 1 012001
Google Scholar
[2] 房丰洲 2020 中国机械工程 537 5
Fang F Z 2020 China Mech. Eng. 537 5
[3] Betzig E, Patterson G H, Sougrat R, Lindwasser O W, Olenych S, Bonifacino J S, Davidson M W, Lippincott-Schwartz J, Hess H F 2006 Science 313 1642
Google Scholar
[4] Manley S, Gillette J M, Patterson G H, Shroff H, Hess H F, Betzig E, Lippincott-Schwartz J 2008 Nat. Methods 5 155
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[16] Joonhyung K, Jeawan H, Yong-Seok K, Dong-Youn L, Kyumin L, Sang-min L, Sang-il P 2003 Rev. Sci. Instrum. 74 4378
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[18] EMVA https://www.emva.org/wp-content/uploads/EMVA1288-3.1 a.pdf [2020-11-15]
[19] Winick K A, 1986 J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3 1809
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[21] Fisher R A 1922 Philos. Trans. R. Soc. A-Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 222 309
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[23] Rao C R 1947 Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 43 280
Google Scholar
[24] Janesick J, Klaasen K, Elliott T 1985 Proc. SPIE 570 7
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