A laser module includes a semiconductor laser element and a feedback
optical component forming an external cavity with the semiconductor laser
element. Even if a ratio of a current threshold of the laser module
changing according to a polarized state of returned light from the
feedback optical component to a current threshold of the semiconductor
laser element is in an arbitrary range within a predetermined range, a
total value of a relative intensity noise occurring between a first
frequency determined according to a cavity length of the external cavity
and at least equal to or more than a frequency band of using a laser
light and a second frequency calculated by multiplying the first
frequency by a predetermined number is equal to or more than -40 dB.