Light-emitting device and illumination device

A light-emitting device, comprising:

• a laser light source which emits a plurality of laser beams;
• an aspherical lens which the plurality of laser beams emitted from the laser light source enter and which converts the plurality of laser beams into convergent beams;
• and
• a phosphor which is irradiated with the convergent beams from the aspherical lens as excitation beams to generate fluorescence, wherein
• the plurality of laser beams have different spread angles in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction and enter the aspherical lens while arranged in a direction in which the spread angle is smaller, from among the horizontal direction and the vertical direction,
• the aspherical lens causes the plurality of laser beams to have:
• light intensity distribution in a top hat shape in a direction in which the spread angle is larger, from among the horizontal direction and the vertical direction;
• and light intensity distribution not in the top hat shape in a direction in which the spread angle is smaller, from among the horizontal direction and the vertical direction, and
• both a light intensity in the horizontal direction and a light intensity in the vertical direction of a synthetic beam of the convergent beams from the aspherical lens are equalized at the phosphor.