Patent ID: 8854934

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a light irradiation unit configured to have two objective lenses by which a reference-plane beam to be radiated to a reference plane and a recording beam and a servo beam to be radiated to a recording layer are incident as optical beams to be radiated to a recording medium having the reference plane on which a position guide is formed and the recording layer formed in a planar shape, and radiate the reference-plane beam, the recording beam, and the servo beam to the recording medium using the objective lenses; a reference-plane tracking control unit configured to perform tracking control of a first objective lens based on reflected light of a first reference-plane beam and tracking control of a second objective lens based on reflected light of a second reference-plane beam when the reference-plane beam radiated by the first objective lens in the light irradiation unit is designated as the first reference-plane beam and the reference-plane beam radiated by the second objective lens in the light irradiation unit is designated as the second reference-plane beam; a recording unit configured to execute recording on the recording medium by independently modulating a first recording beam and a second recording beam when the recording beam radiated by the first objective lens is designated as the first recording beam and the recording beam radiated by the second objective lens is designated as the second recording beam; a recording-layer tracking control unit configured to perform tracking control of the first objective lens based on reflected light of a first servo beam and tracking control of the second objective lens based on reflected light of a second servo beam when the servo beam radiated by the first objective lens is designated as the first servo beam and the servo beam radiated by the second objective lens is designated as the second servo beam; and a control unit configured to control the reference-plane tracking control unit, the recording-layer tracking control unit, and the recording unit, wherein the control unit executes a tracking servo by the second servo beam targeting a latest revolution part on a first spiral recorded by the first recording beam after recording by the first recording beam has been started while the first recording beam is moved by the tracking control of the first objective lens based on the reflected light of the first reference-plane beam so that a spiral with a pitch of at least twice a track pitch recorded on the recording layer is drawn, starts recording by the second recording beam in a state in which the tracking servo by the second servo beam has been applied to the latest revolution part, and executes tracking servo pull-in by the first servo beam targeting a second spiral after the first servo beam has been trued up to the second spiral according to control of the first objective lens.