Patent ID: 8208512

Claim:
A surface emitting semiconductor body with a vertical emission direction, which is provided for operation with a resonator and comprises a semiconductor layer sequence with an active region and also at least two semiconductor layers arranged outside the active region, wherein: the active region comprises a plurality of quantum structures, a geometrical midpoint is assigned to each quantum structure with regard to its extent along the emission direction, the geometrical midpoints of the quantum structures, along the emission direction, are arranged at a mean optical distance D with respect to one another, an optical layer thickness of one of the semiconductor layers arranged outside the active region is detuned in targeted fashion with respect to an integer multiple of half the mean optical distance D, the resonator is formed by means of a Bragg mirror formed in the semiconductor body, and the Bragg mirror is formed with one of the semiconductor layers that are arranged outside the active region and detuned in targeted fashion.