Light guiding member, detector, spectral colorimetric apparatus, and image forming apparatus

Abstract

For the purpose of providing a light guiding member with a simple structure which is capable of suppressing risk that unnecessary light could be mixed in a primary optical path, a light guiding member according to the present invention includes an incident surface, a reflection surface which reflects a light flux from the incident surface, and a side surface disposed at a distance of 1.2 R or more from a center of the reflection surface, where R is a distance from the center to an edge portion of the reflection surface, in a direction perpendicular to a first cross-section including an incident light toward the reflection surface on an optical axis and a reflected light from the reflection surface on the optical axis.

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