摘要 |
The present invention provides an optical scanning apparatus at least including two optical scanning units that freely rotate about a rotation shaft and are disposed in parallel to the rotation shaft; two light sources provided for each optical scanning unit in relation to the optical scanning unit; and four primary mirrors provided respectively opposite and sandwiching the optical scanning unit, and the mirrors reflecting the light from the light source that is scanned by the optical scanning unit, wherein the first optical path that extends from a first optical scanning unit to one primary mirror that corresponds to the first optical scanning unit and a second optical path that extends from a second optical scanning unit to one primary mirror that corresponds to the second optical path are formed to overlap in a vertical orientation on a sectional surface including both rotation shafts of the two optical scanning units. |