Semiconductor laser diode

1. A semiconductor laser diode, comprising:

a substrate;

a semiconductor layer sequence on the substrate, the layer sequence having an active layer designed for generating laser light that is emitted along an emission direction during operation; and

a filter layer that has a main extension plane that is parallel to a main extension plane of the active layer, wherein the filter layer has an absorber layer and is designed to scatter and/or absorb light that propagates in the semiconductor layer sequence and/or the substrate in addition to the laser light.

2. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 1 , wherein the absorber layer is applied on an opposite side of the substrate relative to the semiconductor layer sequence, within the substrate and/or between the substrate and the semiconductor layer sequence.

3. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 1 , wherein the substrate is embodied as the absorber layer.

4. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 1 , wherein the absorber layer is arranged in the semiconductor layer sequence between the substrate and the active layer.

5. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 1 , wherein the absorber layer is arranged in the semiconductor layer sequence on the opposite side of the active layer relative to the substrate.

6. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 1 , wherein at least two absorber layers are present.

7. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 6 , wherein the at least two absorber layers are embodied differently.

8. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 1 , wherein the absorber layer is structured in a direction along the emission direction and/or perpendicular to the emission direction.

9. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 8 , wherein at least two absorber layers structured into partial regions are present and wherein the partial regions are arranged in a manner offset with respect to one another.

10. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 1 , wherein the absorber layer is arranged in a maximum of a substrate mode.

11. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 1 , wherein the absorber layer has an absorption coefficient of greater than or equal to 100 cm −1 .

12. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 1 , wherein the absorber layer has a thickness of greater than or equal to 1 nm and less than or equal to 200 μm.

13. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 1 , wherein the absorber layer has a refractive index greater than or equal to 70% of the refractive index of the substrate.

14. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 1 , wherein a material is introduced by diffusion or implantation for forming the absorber layer, the material comprising one or more materials selected from the group consisting of N, P, O, Mg, Si, Ge, B, and H.

15. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 1 , wherein the absorber layer is grown epitaxially with one or more materials selected from the group consisting of AlInGaN, AlInGaAs, AlInGaP, Si, Ge, ZrO, ZnO, ZnSe, and CdTe.

16. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 1 , wherein the absorber layer comprises a material applied by vapor deposition, sputtering, chemical vapor deposition, ion plating and/or atomic layer deposition, the material selected from the group consisting of AlInGaN, Si, Ge, indium tin oxide, Ni, Cr, Ti, Nb, Pd, Pt, Au, Ag, Cu, Al, ZnO, and TiWN.

17. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 1 , wherein the filter layer has a roughening on an opposite side of the substrate relative to the semiconductor layer sequence.

18. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 17 , wherein the roughening has a mean roughness of greater than or equal to 1 nm and less than or equal to 30 μm.

19. The semiconductor laser diode according to claim 17 , wherein the filter layer has an absorber layer on the roughening.