Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Takako Okabe

Kunio Itoh

Takashi Sugino

Hirokazu Shimizu

Masaru Wada

A stem for a semiconductor laser device of a terraced substrate structure which has a tilted active layer against flat parts of the substrate, the stem comprises a base plate and a heat sink block, a flat face of the heat sink block for bonding the semiconductor laser device thereonto is tilted with respect to a base face of the base plate; this stem has features that the polarization direction of the lased light from the semiconductor laser device can be set to be parallel to (or perpendicular to) the base face of the base plate, and therefore it becomes much easier to make adjustments related with the polarization direction of the lased light.

Stem for semiconductor laser devices

A terraced semiconductor laser comprising semiconductor layers (10, 11, 12) including an active layer (11) formed on a terraced semiconductor substrate (9) in a manner to have an inclined part (111) ranging from the position above said step to the part shifted to the side of said thinner part, an overriding layer (13) having the opposite conductivity type to that of the uppermost layer (12) of said semiconductor layers (10, 11, 12) and formed on said uppermost layer (12), characterized by further comprising: a last layer (14) having the same conductivity type to that of the overriding layer (13) formed on the latter layer (13), said last layer (14) having a stripe-shaped through-opening (141) at the position which is a shifted position from the part immediately above said inclined part 111, thereby exposing a surface of said overriding layer (13) at the bottom of the through-opening (141), a conduction region (15) formed at least on the bottom and side faces of said stripe-shaped opening, in a manner to reach and contact said uppermost layer (12), a first electrode layer formed to contact to said conduction layer in said through-opening and a second electrode formed on the bottom face of said terraced semiconductor substrate. Short-circuiting of p-n junction is eliminated by the improved structure.

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Kusatsu, Japan

Takako Okabe