Patent ID: 8292686

Claim:
An apparatus for manufacturing a light source, comprising: a first retainer that retains a laser device; a second retainer that retains a wavelength conversion element that receives a light emitted from the laser device and emits the received light with a wavelength of the received converted light into another wavelength; a first temperature maintainer that maintains the laser device at a temperature where an output of light to be emitted from the laser device is equal to or greater than a predetermined rate of its maximum output; a second temperature maintainer that maintains the wavelength conversion element at a temperature where an output of light to be emitted from the laser device is equal to or greater than a predetermined rate of its maximum output; an amount-of-light detector that measures an amount of light emitted from the wavelength conversion element whose temperature is maintained by the second temperature maintainer, and a position controller that causes the first retainer to move relative to the second retainer and/or causes second retainer to move relative to the first retainer, so that the amount of light measured by the amount-of-light detector reaches or exceeds a predetermined value, and then to join them together, wherein the laser device maintained at the first temperature and the wavelength conversion element maintained at the second temperature are to be joined together so that the amount of light measured by the amount-of-light detector is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.