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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1997
Jun Ichihara, Kyoto, JP;
Rohm Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor laser. A wafer having a substrate having a semiconductor layer including a light-emitting forming portion epitaxially grown on a surface of the substrate is broken into laser chips having a light-emitting surface at an end face thereof. When breaking the wafer into the chips, the breaking at the light-emitting surface is carried out by first forming street grooves in the substrate and thereafter cleaving the light-emitting layer forming portion. By doing so, there is no necessity of thinning the substrate to a required extent, facilitating handling during the manufacture process. A roughened surface of the street groove is provided in the substrate underlying the light-emitting layer forming portion, which is convenient for irregular reflection of a return light beam often encountered in an optical disc pickup device.