Objects of the present invention is to reduce a number of scanning a
linear laser, to shorten the amount of time for laser annealing, and to
reduce a manufacturing process, a manufacturing time, and manufacturing
cost of a semiconductor device. In this invention, a gas at high
temperature is locally blown so as to overlap at an irradiation surface
of linear laser light. The linear laser light can be obtained by
injecting laser light radiated from a laser oscillator into a lens. The
gas at high temperature can be obtained by heating a gas which is
compressed using a gas compressor, by a nozzle type heater. The heated
has is sprayed so as to overlap with the irradiation surface of the
linear laser light.