US 7,602,829 B2
Semiconductor light emitting device and method of manufacturing same
Takayuki Matsuyama, Kanagawa-ken (Japan); and Masaaki Onomura, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/545,756.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-296931 (JP), filed on Oct. 11, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2008/0181275 A1, Jul. 31, 2008
Int. Cl. H01S 5/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 372—49.01  [372/43.01] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor light emitting device comprising:
a gallium nitride substrate;
a multilayer film of nitride semiconductors provided on the gallium nitride substrate, the multilayer film including a light emitting layer, and the gallium nitride substrate and the multilayer film having a laser light emitting facet and a laser light reflecting facet;
a first film including at least a first silicon nitride layer, the first silicon nitride layer being provided adjacent to the laser light emitting facet; and
a second film including a second silicon nitride layer and a laminated film provided on the second silicon nitride layer, the second silicon nitride layer being provided adjacent to the laser light reflecting facet, the laminated film including at least one oxide layer and at least one silicon nitride layer which are alternately laminated.