Patent ID: 8509041

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a light irradiation and receiving unit configured to irradiate recording light for performing mark recording to a recording layer and an adjacent servo light for an adjacent track servo onto an optical disc recording medium having the recording layer through a common objective lens, and to receive reflected light from the recording layer of the adjacent servo light, the adjacent servo light having an irradiation position different from a position in a disc circumferential direction of the recording light and being separated from the recording light by a predetermined distance in a disc radial direction; a tracking mechanism configured to drive the objective lens in a tracking direction which is the disc radial direction; a tracking servo signal generation unit configured to obtain a corrected servo error signal as a servo error signal based on a light receiving signal for the adjacent servo light, and to generate a tracking servo signal using the corrected servo error signal, the corrected servo error signal being obtained when the adjacent servo light has been irradiated in a same position in the disc circumferential direction as a position of the recording light; and a tracking driving unit configured to drive the tracking mechanism based on the tracking servo signal.