Patent ID: 9618175
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: F21S,F21Y,H01S

Claim:
1. A vehicle lamp which emits illumination light by using laser light as excitation light, comprising: a semiconductor light-emitting element emitting laser light; a phosphor which receives the laser light emitted from the semiconductor light-emitting element as excitation light to emit visible light; a reflector which is disposed to face the phosphor from the rear side to the lower side thereof and reflects the visible light emitted from the phosphor forward to emit illumination light; and an absorbing member which is disposed on the back of the phosphor and absorbs, of the excitation light, excitation light regularly reflected by a surface of the phosphor, wherein the phosphor is formed on a metal plate, the metal plate has a surface which is inclined to cause the excitation light regularly reflected by the surface of the phosphor to be incident on the absorbing member, and the phosphor and an incident portion of the absorbing member, which receives the regularly reflected excitation light, are disposed at a position higher in a vertical direction than that of an upper end portion of the reflector.