Patent ID: 8121003

Claim:
An optical recording/reproducing apparatus for intermittently recording information on an optical disk comprising: a light source that records information on an optical disk; a first sensor that reproduces information from a recorded portion and evaluates a signal quality of the reproduced information during a recording standby period in an intermittent recording process; a second sensor that detects a temperature in the apparatus; and a correction circuit that corrects a power of a laser beam emitted from the light source based on an evaluation result of the first sensor and the temperature in the apparatus detected by the second sensor, wherein the correction circuit corrects the power of the laser beam of the light source by performing a first correction and then a second correction sequentially: the first correction correcting the power of the laser beam of the light source based on the evaluation result of the signal quality of the reproduced information during a recording standby period in the intermittent recording process, and the second correction correcting the power of the laser beam corrected in the first correction based on a change in temperature in the apparatus detected during a recording standby period in the intermittent recording process.