An optical lens, a light emitting device package using the optical lens
and a backlight unit are disclosed, whereby light irradiated upward of a
light emitting device is refracted from a bottom refraction surface to
allow reaching a reflection surface, and an optical lens is mounted for
reflecting the light sideways of the lens from the reflection surface to
minimize an amount of light irradiated upward of the lens while
increasing the amount of light irradiated toward the lateral surface of
the lens, thereby limiting the generation of a hot spot to the maximum.
The present invention dispenses with a hot spot baffle plate and a
complicated assembly process to enable to reduce the number of parts and
to decrease the thickness of a panel.