Celor doua Doamne din viata mea: mamaie si mama 7 Preface This thesis discusses some of the challenges of optical design for Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) mirror systems and illustrates novel design techniques and their application to, preponderantly, EUV systems and, in addition, some Deep Ultraviolet (DUV) lithographic objectives. The main added value of this thesis is the fact that it shows how ...