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The semiconductor lasers operating with self-sustained pulsation are under developing to be lasers which are less disturbed by the optical feedback from a surface of optical disk. Structures setting saturable absorbing regions utilizing the multi-layer configuration become popularly used for giving stronger pulsation. However, the quantum (intensity) noise in these lasers tends to be enhanced. The ridge stripe structure, of which almost self-sustained pulsation lasers consist, seems to give a leak current flowing along plane of the cladding region. Such leak current also increases the quantum noise. In this paper, theoretical calculations of operating characteristics, such as the self-sustained pulsation, the optical output, the quantum noise as well as the transverse filed profile, are theoretically analyzed by including the above mentioned several phenomena.