Patent ID: 6946634

Claim:
An optical pickup device comprising: a light emitting element emitting laser light; a diffraction grating for dividing the laser light into three beams; an optical system for guiding and focusing the three-beam laser light along a predetermined route onto a recording surface of an optical disk and guiding reflected light from the recording surface; a beam splitter for splitting the laser light proceeding toward the recording surface and the reflected light from the recording surface; an optical sensor for receiving the reflected light split by the beam splitter; and a transparent plate, wherein: the transparent plate is provided on a route of the reflected light between the beam splitter and the optical sensor; a normal line of the transparent plate is inclined by 45± 5 ° with respect to an optical axis of the reflected light, a component of the normal line of the transparent plate extending perpendicularly with the optical axis of the reflected light is fixed to the position rotated from a reference plane, which corresponds to a track of a line segment extending along a data track of the optical disk moved along the optical axis so that the laser light is propagated, by 45±5° about the optical axis; the optical sensor comprises a first light receiving surface divided into four areas in a matrix manner for receiving a main beam at the center of three-beam reflected light, and second and third light receiving surfaces divided in such a manner that the parting line extends in the direction orthogonal to the reference plane for receiving the sub-beams of the three beams other than the main beam, respectively; and the focus error signal can be obtained based on an astigmatic method by detection on the first light receiving surface and the tracking error signal can be obtained based on a differential push-pull method by detection on the second and third light receiving surfaces.