Patent ID: 7660055

Claim:
An optical element having a position-adjusting concave part that is caved towards an optical axis side on an outer peripheral face surrounding said optical axis, which is capable of adjusting position by inserting an adjusting member into said position-adjusting concave part and shifting said adjusting member in that state, said optical element comprising: a first groove extending from one end of said outer peripheral face in an optical axis direction towards other end; a second groove extending from said other end of said outer peripheral face in said optical axis direction towards said one end, which is connected to said first groove; and said position-adjusting concave part formed in a connecting part between said first groove and said second groove, which is capable of adjusting position by said adjusting member in said optical axis direction, a revolving direction with said optical axis being a center, width direction of said first groove and said second groove, which is orthogonal to said optical axis, and in a synthesized direction that is a combination of at least two directions out of said directions, wherein: said first groove and said second groove are formed in such a manner that respective centers in width direction thereof come at a same position with respect to each other in said width direction; out of two side faces in a width direction of a connecting part between said first groove and said second groove, at least one side face protrudes towards a center side in said width direction of said first and second grooves than side faces of said first and second groove which are connected to said one side face, thereby forming, in said connecting part, an abutting face to which said adjusting member can be placed against; and said abutting face constitutes at least a part of side faces of said position-adjusting concave part.