Optical disk drive

Abstract

In an optical disc drive that needs an aberration correcting element for correcting spherical aberrations, it takes long time to conduct a processing operation of the aberration correcting element in an interlayer movement of a multilayer disc and a drive initializing operation. In order to eliminate the problem, an optical disc drive using a pickup includes a focus actuator for moving an objective lens in a rotation axis direction of a disc, a tracking actuator for moving the objective lens in a radial direction of the disc, an aberration corrector for correcting aberrations, and a feeder for moving the pickup in the disc radial direction. A control operation of the aberration corrector and a control operation of the feeder are conducted in parallel.

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