Patent ID: 8388149

Claim:
A projector comprising: a light emitting device; a light modulation device adapted to modulate first and second light beams emitted from the light emitting device in accordance with image information; and a projection device adapted to project a projection image formed by the light modulation device, wherein the light emitting device includes a light emitting element formed of a super luminescent diode in a rectangular shape, and adapted to emit the first and second light beams from first and second end surfaces, respectively, when flowing current through an active layer sandwiched between a first cladding layer and a second cladding layer, and a base supporting the light emitting element, and provided with a first reflecting surface and a second reflecting surface each adapted to reflect the light emitted from the light emitting element, the first and second end surfaces respectively angled relative to the first and second reflecting surfaces, a first emitting direction of the first light beam emitted from the first end surface of the light emitting element and a second emitting direction of the second light beam emitted from the second end surface of the light emitting element are opposite to each other, and the first and second emitting directions are angled relative to perpendicular directions of the first and second end surfaces, respectively, the first reflecting surface reflects the first light beam, the second reflecting surface reflects the second light beam, and a first reflecting direction of the first light beam reflected by the first reflecting surface and a second reflecting direction of the second light beam reflected by the second reflecting surface are the same as each other.