Radiation-emitting optical component

1. A radiation-emitting semiconductor component, comprising:

a substrate;

a semiconductor layer structure which includes an active semiconductor layer which, in operation, emits radiation with a spectral distribution;

electrical contacts for applying a current to the layer structure; and

a coating layer which at least partially surrounds the active semiconductor layer and comprises a stack of electrically insulating layers to form an interference edge cut-off filter, the coating layer being operable to substantially hold back a short-wave component and to virtually unimpairedly transmit a longer-wave component of the radiation emitted by the active semiconductor layer,

wherein a majority of the emitted radiation is emitted through a top face of the semiconductor layer structure remote from the substrate,

wherein the longer-wave component transmitted by the coating layer comprises a dominant wavelength of the radiation emitted by the active semiconductor layer, and

wherein the coating layer is in direct contact with the top face of the semiconductor layer structure, and

wherein the coating layer completely covers the top face of the semiconductor layer structure and side faces of the semiconductor layer structure apart from a region of the top face that is provided with an electrical contact of said electrical contacts and in which the semiconductor component is encapsulated by a material which is transparent to the longer-wave component of the emitted radiation, and the coating layer is arranged between the active layer of the semiconductor component and the transparent encapsulation material.

2. The radiation-emitting semiconductor component as claimed in claim 1 , in which the active layer emits radiation in the blue and ultraviolet spectral regions, and the coating layer holds back radiation in the ultraviolet spectral region and transmits radiation in the blue spectral region.

3. The radiation-emitting semiconductor component as claimed in claim 1 , in which the coating layer reflects radiation with a wavelength of less than approximately 430 nm.

4. The radiation-emitting optical component as claimed in claim 1 , in which the transparent material is selected from the group consisting of epoxy resin, epoxy molding compounds and acrylates.

5. The radiation-emitting semiconductor component as claimed in claim 1 , in which the coating layer comprises an alternating layer sequence of TiO 2 and SiO 2 layers.

6. The radiation-emitting semiconductor component as claimed in claim 3 , in which the radiation transmitted by the coating layer comprises radiation with a wavelength between approximately 450 nm and approximately 470 nm.

7. The radiation-emitting semiconductor component as claimed in claim 6 , in which the active layer emits a dominant wavelength of approximately 460-470 nm.

8. The radiation-emitting semiconductor component as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the coating layer holds back radiation with a wavelength of less than approximately 420 nm.