Patent ID: 7826328

Claim:
An optical pickup device comprising: a light source that emits a light beam; a divergence-angle converting lens that converts an angle of divergence of the light beam emitted from the light source and emits the light beam, the divergence-angle converting lens diverging divergent light emitted from the light source at a larger angle of divergence when the divergent light is made incident on a surface on an incidence side of the divergence-angle converting lens and emitting the divergent light at a predetermined angle of divergence when the divergent light is emitted from a surface on an emission side of the divergence-angle converting lens; and an object lens adapted to be displaceable in a tracking direction that receives incidence of the light beam, the angle of divergence of which is converted by the divergence-angle converting lens, and converges and emits the light beam, wherein spherical aberration equivalent to an amount that can offset astigmatism caused when the object lens is displaced is given to the divergence-angle converting lens, and spherical aberration that can offset the spherical aberration given to the divergence-angle converting lens is given to the object lens and comatic aberration that can offset comatic aberration caused by the spherical aberration given to the divergence-angle converting lens when the object lens is displaced is given to the object lens.