Patent ID: 7564753

Claim:
An optical pickup comprising: a lens holder body having a first surface and a second surface opposing to each other, a third surface adapted to support a lens, and a fourth surface opposite to the third surface; a single panel provided on each of the first surface and the second surface; a tracking coil, a focusing coil and a tilt coil provided on the panel; a magnet body disposed so as to face each of the first surface and the second surface, the magnetic body having a first pole piece polarized with a first pole and a second pole piece polarized with a second pole which are combined so as to form a first boundary extending in a first direction and a second boundary extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, thereby constituting a planar closed magnetic circuit; and an inclination detector including a pair of optical sensors disposed so as to face diagonal corners of the fourth surface of the lens holder body, and operable to detect an inclination of the lens holder body on the basis of a differential output of the pair of optical sensors, wherein; the tracking coil is disposed so as to overlap the first boundary; the focusing coil is disposed so as to overlap the second boundary; the tilt coil is disposed so as to overlap the second boundary; and each of the optical sensors includes a photo emitter and a photo detector.