Patent attributes
There are a silicon laser device having a IV-group semiconductor such as silicon or germanium equivalent to the silicon as a basic constituent element on a substrate made of the silicon, and the like by a method capable of easily forming the silicon laser device by using a general silicon process, and a manufacturing method thereof. The silicon laser device is an ultrathin silicon laser that includes a first electrode unit injecting electrons, a second electrode unit injecting holes, a light emitting unit electrically connected to the first electrode unit and the second electrode unit, wherein the light emitting unit is made of single-crystal silicon and has a first surface (top surface) and a second surface (bottom surface) opposed to the first surface, a waveguide made of a first dielectric, which is disposed in the vicinity of the light emitting unit, by setting surface directions of the first and second surfaces as a surface (100) and thinning a thickness of the light emitting unit in a direction perpendicular to the first and second surfaces, and a mirror formed by alternately adjoining the first dielectric and a second dielectric.