Provided is an optical head that includes a base substrate and a line head. The line head includes a plurality of sub-line heads electrically independent of one another and arranged on the base substrate in parallel with a first direction. Each of the plurality of sub-line heads includes a circuit substrate unit that constitutes a portion of the base substrate, and an optical-element array that includes a plurality of optical elements each arranged on the circuit substrate unit at least in parallel with a second direction that is a direction of a length of each of the plurality of sub-line heads.