OPTICAL COMPONENT, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS OF THE SAME

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical component for correctly manufacturing the optical component such as a prism in such a manner that the coating remaining of an adhesive is eliminated and bubbles are not included, and to provide a manufacturing method of the optical component and a manufacturing apparatus of the optical component. SOLUTION: In the manufacturing method of the optical component, where a plurality of planar optical members are laminated in a prescribed oblique direction via an adhesives so as to form a block structure in an obliquely laminated state with step-like side faces, pressurization is performed from the edge faces of the block structure in the obliquely laminated state so as to stick the plurality of the planar optical members to one another, the pressurization is performed from the edge faces of the block structure in the obliquely laminated state in a prescribed oblique direction also along the stepwise side faces. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT