Patent ID: 7876801

Claim:
A surface-emitting type semiconductor laser comprising: a lower mirror; an active layer formed above the lower mirror; an upper mirror formed above the active layer; and a lens section formed above the upper mirror, being n 1 <n, where λ is a design wavelength, n 1 is a refractive index of a topmost layer of the upper mirror with respect to light of the design wavelength, and n is a refractive index of the lens section with respect to light of the design wavelength, the lens section having a thickness of 3λ/4n at an anti-node of the zeroth order resonance mode component among light resonating in the active layer, and the lens section having a thickness of λ/2n at at least a portion of an anti-node of the first order resonance mode component among the light resonating in the active layer, normalized energy of the active layer with the zeroth order resonance mode component being greater than normalized energy of the active layer with the first order resonance mode component.