Patent ID: 8238206

Claim:
An optical disk device comprising: a pickup head for irradiating an optical disk with laser light via an objective lens and for outputting an electrical signal based on light reflected from the optical disk; a generation means which generates a lens error signal based on the electrical signal output from the pickup head, and after amplifying the lens error signal with a gain which is set in advance, outputs the lens error signal; a shifting means which shifts the objective lens in a radial direction of the optical disk; a LC servo means which performs a lens center servo control in which, based on the lens error signal output from the generation means, the LC servo means applies driving voltage to the shifting means and makes the objective lens follow a central position corresponding to a standard voltage; and a measurement means which, before the LC servo means applies driving voltage to the shifting means, measures a first amplitude value of the lens error signal output from the generation means by applying to the shifting means a positive predetermined level of driving voltage, and measures a second amplitude value of the lens error signal output from the generation means by applying to the shifting means a negative predetermined level of driving voltage, wherein the measurement means calculates a current gain based on the first and the second amplitude values, a latest gain which is currently set, and a predetermined target amplitude value, and then sets the current gain to the generation means, wherein after amplifying the generated lens error signal with the current gain which has been set, the generation means outputs the generated lens error signal, and wherein the LC servo means performs the lens center servo control, based on the lens error signal which has been amplified with the current gain.