Optical head unit and optcal information recording/reproducing apparatus

Abstract

An optical head unit includes, apart from an objective lens toward a light source, an optical device that changes the image height of light incident onto the objective lens, wherein the optical device includes a concave lens and a convex lens. The objective lens is designed so that a coma aberration having a specific polarity occurs if the optical axis of the incident light tilts toward a specific direction. If the disk tilts, the convex lens is moved within the plane perpendicular to the optical axis, to change the image height of the light incident onto the objective lens, to thereby tilt the optical axis of light exiting from the convex lens with respect to the optical axis of light incident onto the concave lens. The objective lens generates a coma aberration having a polarity opposite to the polarity of the coma aberration attributable to the tilt of disk, to thereby cancel the coma aberration attributable to the tilt.

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