A ridge-type semiconductor laser is provided. The ridge-type semiconductor laser includes a pattern for a current inflow path control formed on an active layer and having an opening thereinside controlling a current inflow path with a width W1, and a ridge formed on the pattern for a current inflow path control, with a width W2 greater than W1 and burying the opening with a width W1 and controlling an optical mode. The ridge-type semiconductor laser improves the characteristics of a laser by separately controlling the extent that current is spread in the space, and the extent that optical mode is spread in the space, to maximize the coincidence of the respective space distributions of the current and the optical mode.