Patent ID: 8264923

Claim:
An optical disc device comprising: a light source; an object lens to focus light emitted from the light source on an information recording surface of an optical disc; a movable lens that is arranged on an optical path between the light source and the objective lens and arranged such that position thereof is adjustable along a direction of a light axis; a lens moving portion to move the movable lens along the direction of the light axis; a tracking servo system which makes a beam spot that is formed of the light from the light source through focusing by the objective lens keep on track of the optical disc; and a control part configured to control a gain of a servo loop of the tracking servo system, wherein, when moving of the movable lens is started, and during a moving period of the movable lens, the gain of the servo loop is increased to a constant value larger than an ordinary gain value and, when moving of the movable lens is completed, the gain of the servo loop is restored from the increased value to the ordinary gain value.