Patent ID: 7068576

Claim:
An optical disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus comprising: a disc rotating mechanism for selectively loading thereon a plurality of sorts of optical discs having reciprocally different values of the track pitch of the recording track and hence different values of the recording density; disc discriminating means for discriminating the sort of the optical disc loaded on said disc rotating mechanism; a light source for radiating a light beam having a wavelength of approximately 780 nm; an objective lens for converging the light beam radiated from said light source for irradiating said optical disc, said objective lens having the numerical aperture (NA) of approximately 0.62; aberration producing means for generating the aberration in a light beam radiated from said objective lens to said optical disc; light receiving means for receiving the reflected light from said optical disc; and control means for driving said aberration producing means depending on the sorts of said optical disc discriminated by said disc discriminating means for correcting different sorts of the aberration produced in said light beam to record and/or reproduce the information signals for said optical disc.