摘要 |
An illumination system includes a light source for providing pulse light, and a scanning system for relatively and scanningly moving an article, to be illuminated, relative to an illumination region to be defined by the pulse light, wherein, in a light intensity distribution defined in the illumination region with respect to a scan direction, the light intensity changes non-linearly from an least one end portion to a highest light intensity point in the distribution, wherein the light intensity distribution includes a first point at the one end portion, a second point whereat light intensity increase changes, a third point whereat light intensity increase changes, and a fourth point whereat the light intensity is highest, and wherein at least one of a width Wa between the first and second points and a width Wb between the third and fourth points substantially corresponds to or is greater than the relative movement amount between the illumination region and the article per pulse.
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