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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2000
Shusuke Kaya, Yokohama, JP;
Takao Ninomiya, Yokohama, JP;
Michio Okubo, Fujisawa, JP;
Seiji Uchiyama, Fujisawa, JP;
The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A semiconductor laser device is formed by laminating optical confinement layers and active layers so as to dispose each of said active layers between said optical confinement layers, wherein one of the opposite ends perpendicular to the junction planes of the individual layers in the semiconductor multi-layer film is coated with a low reflection film and the other of the ends is coated with a high reflection film, wherein the low reflection film is an Al O film having a resistivity of 1×10 &OHgr;·m or more, preferably 1×10 &OHgr;·m or more, and having a stoichiometric ratio composition, which is deposited by, for example, an electron cyclotron resonance sputtering process. The present invention has realized a semiconductor laser device exhibiting a prolonged duration of operating life and having high driving reliability, which is advantageous in that a catastrophic optical damage hardly occurs and a lowering of the optical output after driving at a constant current is suppressed, and thus, it is preferably used as an optical transmitter for the optical communication.