Optical pickup and optical disc apparatus using the same

An optical disc apparatus comprising:

• a drive unit that holds and rotationally drives an optical disc desirably selected from a plurality of types of optical discs;
• and
• an optical pickup that records and/or reproduces information by irradiating the optical disc rotationally driven with the drive unit, with a corresponding optical beam selected from a plurality of optical beams with different wavelengths, the optical pickup including
• a laser source that emits the plurality of optical beams with the different wavelengths;
• first and second objective lenses having different specifications and arranged so that optical axes thereof are substantially parallel to each other;
• a first raising optical element that reflects an optical beam from a first direction within a plane substantially orthogonal to the optical axis of the first objective lens, to cause the reflected optical beam to be incident on the first objective lens;
• and
• a second raising optical element that reflects an optical beam from a second direction at an angle to the first direction within a plane substantially orthogonal to the optical axis of the second objective lens, to cause the reflected optical beam to be incident on the second objective lens,
• wherein at least one lateral surface of at least one of the first and second raising optical elements is formed at an angle of 90 degrees or smaller to a reflection surface thereof, and
• wherein the lateral surface of the one of the first and second raising optical elements is arranged to face a lateral surface of the other of the first and second raising optical elements.