Semiconductor laser element suitable for production by a MO-CVD method

Abstract

A semiconductor laser element includes a first cladding layer of first conductivity type provided on a semiconductor substrate of the first conductivity type; a current blocking layer of a second conductivity type provided on the first cladding layer having a stripe groove from which the first cladding layer and is exposed at the bottom thereof; a light guide layer of the first conductivity type provided covering the current blocking layer, the stripe groove, and the first cladding layer exposed from the groove; an active layer provided on the light guide layer curved in the neighborhood of the stripe groove, whose refractive index is larger than that of the light guide layer; and a second cladding layer of the second conductivity type provided on the active layer, whose refractive index is smaller than that of the active layer.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.