Patent ID: 7280445

Claim:
An optical pick-up for reading an optical disk in which information is recorded on a first recording layer and a second recording layer respectively, the optical pick-up comprising: a light source for applying a laser beam to the optical disk; and a movable objective lens for converging the laser beam on the first and second recording layers, wherein: an optical system including the light source and the objective lens is a finite optical system in which the laser beam emitted from the light source is incident on the objective lens without passing a collimate lens; a reference position of the objective lens is set so that converged light from the objective lens forms a focal point on the recording layer remoter from the light source of the first and second recording layers in the optical disk; and when the information of the recording layer nearer to the light source is read, the objective lens is moved to the light source side from the reference position to perform a focusing operation.