An optical fiber of a bundled fiber light source is an optical fiber whose
core diameter is uniform but whose emission end cladding diameter is
smaller than an incidence end cladding diameter thereof, and a light
emission region thereof is made smaller. An angle of luminous flux from
this higher luminance bundled fiber light source, which passes through a
lens system and is incident on a DMD, is smaller, i.e., an illumination
NA is made smaller. Thus, an angle of flux which is incident on a surface
that is to be exposed is smaller. That is, a minute image formation beam
can be obtained without increasing the image formation NA, focal depth is
lengthen.