Optical pickup device

摘要

An optical pickup device has a spherical aberration correction mechanism and a control part performing a process for determining setting of the spherical aberration correction mechanism. The process includes an objective lens moving process of moving an objective lens with respect to an optical recording medium, a checking process of checking in which shift direction the timing when the reflection light quantity signal becomes a peak is shifted from the timing when an S-shaped curve of a focus error signal crosses zero by using the reflection light quantity signal and the focus error signal derived from a recording layer on which information is read or written obtained by the objective lens moving process, and a setting changing process of changing current setting of the spherical aberration correction mechanism in accordance with the shift direction checked in the checking process in the case where it is decided that setting of the spherical aberration correction mechanism should be changed from the current setting.