Patent ID: 7839754

Claim:
An optical head having at least three laser diodes each generating a laser beam with a different wave length from each other, the optical head comprising: a first laser diode for generating a laser beam with a wave length of λ 1 ; a second laser diode arranged on the same optical axis as the first laser diode and at a further position than the first laser diode from an information-recording surface for generating a laser beam with a wave length of λ 2 , which is shorter than the wave length of λ 1 ; a third laser diode arranged on the same optical axis as the first laser diode for generating a laser beam with a wave length of λ 3 , which is shorter than the wave length λ 2 ; a collimator lens arranged at a position where a diffused light is output there from when the laser beam with the wave length λ 1 is incident, and a parallel light is output there from when the laser beams with the wave lengths λ 2 and λ 3 are incident; a diffraction object lens arranged on the optical axis of the collimator lens; and an aperture filter arranged between the collimator lens and the diffraction object lens for limiting the aperture for the laser beam of the first laser diode with the wave length λ 1 , wherein the second and the third laser diodes are arranged at substantially same positions on the optical axis, which are farther than the first laser diode from the collimator lens, wherein the laser beam with the wave length λ 1 generated by the first laser diode is focused on an information recording surface of a first recording medium via the diffraction object lens, wherein the laser beam with the wave length λ 2 generated by the second laser diode is focused on an information recording surface of a second recording medium which has a shorter distance between the recording medium surface and the information recording surface than the distance between a recording medium surface and the information recording surface of the first recording medium via the diffraction object lens, and wherein the laser beam with the wave length λ 3 generated by the third laser diode is focused on an information recording surface of a third recording medium which has substantially equal distance between a recording medium surface and the information recording surface to the distance between the recording medium surface and the information recording surface of the second recording medium via the diffraction object lens.