Patent ID: 6980503

Claim:
An optical pickup movable radially across a disk-shaped recording medium mounted on a disk table, for applying a laser beam to the disk-shaped recording medium through an objective lens, comprising: a light-emitting device having a first light emitter and a second light emitter for emitting, to two different types of disk-shaped recording media, respectively, a first laser beam and a second laser beam, respectively, having a first wavelength and a second wavelength, respectively, which correspond to the respective disk-shaped recording media; a light splitter for passing the first laser beam and the second laser beam which are emitted from the light-emitting device toward the disk-shaped recording media, and reflecting the first laser beam and the second laser beam which are reflected respectively by the disk-shaped recording media; a collimator lens disposed between the light splitter and the objective lens, for converting the first laser beam and the second laser beam which are emitted from the light-emitting device into a parallel beam; a light-detecting device for being irradiated with the first laser beam and the second laser beam which are reflected by the light splitter; and a coupling lens disposed between the light-emitting device and the collimator lens, for changing an optical magnification from the light-emitting device to the disk-shaped recording media and an optical magnification from the disk-shaped recording media to the light-detecting device; the first laser beam having an optical axis aligned with the optical axis of the objective lens, the second laser beam having an optical axis displaced off the optical axis of the objective lens; wherein the distance from the light-emitting device to the coupling lens is of 0.26F or more where F represents the combined focal length of the collimator lens and the coupling lens.