An injection locking type or MOPA type of laser device capable of always
providing stable output energy and wavelength is provided. For this
purpose, the laser device includes an oscillator for exciting laser gas
by oscillator discharge and oscillating seed laser light with
band-narrowed wavelength, an amplifier for amplifying the seed laser
light by amplification discharge to emit amplified laser light, a delay
circuit for setting at least one of a delay time from light emission of
the seed laser light to light emission of the amplified laser light, and
a delay time from start of the oscillator discharge to start of the
aforementioned amplification discharge, and a delay time compensation
circuit for performing compensation of the delay circuit so that the
delay time becomes an optimal delay time.