The present invention intends to provide a surface-emitting laser light source using a two-dimensional photonic crystal in which the efficiency of extracting light in a direction perpendicular to the surface is high. In a laser light source provided with a two-dimensional photonic crystal layer 24 created from a plate-shaped matrix body in which a large number of holes 25 are periodically arranged and an active layer 23 arranged on one side of the two-dimensional photonic crystal layer 24, the holes 25 are created to be columnar with a predetermined cross-sectional shape such as a circular shape, and the main axis of each of the columnar holes is tilted to a surface of the matrix body. When provided with this two-dimensional photonic crystal layer 24, the surface-emitting laser source using a two-dimensional photonic crystal has a Q Š¥ value (i.e. a Q value in a direction perpendicular to the surface) of several thousands, which is suitable for an oscillation of laser light, and the efficiency of extracting light is high in the direction perpendicular to the surface.
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