A VCSEL includes a substrate, a first semiconductor multilayer of a first conductivity-type, an active layer, a second semiconductor multilayer of a second conductivity-type, a contact layer, each of the layers stacked on the substrate. The second semiconductor multilayer constitutes a resonator together with the active layer and the first semiconductor multilayer. A metal layer is formed on the contact layer. The metal layer includes an opening portion that defines a region that emits laser light. When oscillation wavelength of the laser light is .lamda., optical thickness T of the contact layer and a top layer of the second semiconductor multilayer that contacts with the contact layer is smaller than .lamda./4.

 
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