Patent ID: 7830761
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical disk apparatus comprising: a rotation driving section on which an optical disk is to be mounted and which drives the optical disk so as to be rotated; a light source; an objective lens for converging light from the light source onto an optical disk mounted on the rotation driving section; a photodetector having at least two detection sections for detecting reflected light, from the optical disk, of the light; and an error signal generation section for deriving a difference signal and a sum signal of respective outputs from the two detection sections of the photodetector, adjusting an offset in at least the sum signal among the difference signal and the sum signal, and thereafter dividing the difference signal by the sum signal whose offset has been adjusted to generate a position error signal of the objective lens, wherein, the error signal generation section includes: a subtracter for deriving a difference between the signals respectively obtained from the two detection sections of the photodetector and outputting a difference signal; an adder for deriving a sum of the signals respectively output from the two detection sections of the photodetector and outputting a sum signal; an offset adjustment section for adjusting an offset in the sum signal; and a divider for dividing the difference signal by the sum signal whose offset has been adjusted, and the offset adjustment section adjusts the offset in the sum signal so that error signals obtained at no less than two different positions along a radial direction of the optical disk have an equal amplitude.