Stepped substrate semiconductor laser for emitting light at slant portion.

摘要

In a slant plane light emission type semiconductor laser whose laser structure can be formed on a stepped substrate by a series of MOCVD growth processes, the width of the active layer (5) at the slant portion (F2 7b) is set to 2.5 mu m or less or the angle between the flat portion (F1a, F3a; 7a) and slant portion is set to 12 degrees or less. The semiconductor laser having such a structure can emit light having a single peak at the near field.