designed to function similarly to the first microlenses 123 described above is formed on the entrance surface of the fourth microlens array 136 for the third microlens array 132 an ultraviolet curable resin or a thermosetting resin such as an epoxy resin is used for the formation of the third microlens array 132 technologies for forming aspherical lenses can be applied for example with such technologies manufacture of the microlens array 110 according to the present embodiment is relatively easy although an example in which convexes are formed on the entrance surface of the third microlens array 136 is illustrated in fig3 the entrance surface of the third microlens array 136 may be flat and only the coating layer 132 may have convexes functioning as lenses the microlens array 110 included in the light intensity distribution uniformizing element 100 can be used in various applications other than the light intensity distribution uniformizing element similarly to other typical microlens arrays 110 although a case in which multiple microlenses 112 are arranged on a plane is presented in the present embodiment the technologies of the present embodiment can also be applied to microlens array in which microlenses are arranged linearly such as in on row a second embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings the present embodiment is an embodiment of a projection apparatus in which the microlens array according to the first embodiment is used fig4 illustrates an outline of an example configuration of the projector 10 that is a projection apparatus according to the present embodiment the projector 10 is a digital light processing dlp registered trademark projector using a micromirror display device the projector 10 includes an input unit 11 an image converter 12 a projection processor 13.