Electrode ablation is controlled in EUV light source device that gasifies
a raw material by irradiation with an energy beam and produces a
high-temperature plasma using electrodes a raw material for plasma is
dripped in a space in the vicinity of, but other than, the discharge
region and from which the gasified raw material can reach the discharge
region between the discharge electrodes and a laser beam irradiates the
high-temperature plasma raw material. A gasified high-temperature plasma
raw material, gasified by the laser beam, spreads in the direction of the
discharge region. At this time, power is applied on a pair of discharge
electrodes, the gasified high-temperature plasma raw material is heated
and excited to become a high-temperature plasma, and EUV radiation is
emitted. This EUV radiation is collected by an EUV collector mirror and
sent to lithography equipment.