An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus to record/reproduce information using holography, comprising:
- a signal generation unit;
- a pick up;
- and
- a signal processing unit;
- wherein the signal generation unit modulates input data, adds at least one control bit to each group of N bits, performs NRZI-modulation on the modulated data, determines the at least one control bit such that a digital sum value of the NRZI-modulated data falls within a predetermined range, performs NRZI modulation on the data whose at least one control bit was determined, and rearranges the data to generate 2-dimensional data;
- wherein the pickup records the 2-dimensional data generated by the signal generation unit in a hologram disc and reproduce the 2-dimensional data from the hologram disc;
- wherein the signal processing unit corrects image distortions of the 2-dimensional data reproduced by the pickup, performs NRZI-modulation on the 2-dimensional data that has undergone a binarization operation, removes the at least one control bit added during the recording, and demodulates the data according to a modulation rule used during the recording.