A semiconductor laser device including a laser element stack array
emitting a two-dimensional array shaped group of laser beams consisting
of rows of laser beams arranged linearly in parallel in a broken line
configuration and optical elements arranged in front of the array,
receiving rows of laser beams bent and collimated in a direction
substantially perpendicular to the orientation of the broken line
configuration. Laser beams are emitted from emitters or groups of
emitters and are rotated by right angles so as to convert the laser beams
to a plurality of rows aligned in parallel in an approximate ladder rung
configuration and the distance between center axes of the rows of laser
beams is shortened to condense the laser beams by converting them to a
group of laser beams emitted from a common object and thereby making all
laser beams converge to a single image.