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A prepit detecting apparatus which uses an optical recording medium having information recording tracks on which information is recorded and guide tracks each of which guides a light beam to the information recording track and on which prepits for saving pre-information are formed such that the light beam is applied to the information track of the optical recording medium, the prepit detecting apparatus comprising: light receiving means divided into a first divided light receiving portion and a second divided light receiving portion divided along an optically parallel division line in a direction of tangent of the information tracks and arranged to receive reflected light of the light beam with which the optical recording medium has been irradiated; and a difference calculator for calculating the difference between a first read signal output from the first divided light receiving portion and a second read signal output from the second divided light receiving portion so that the prepit is detected in response to a differential signal output from the difference calculator, wherein the difference calculator incorporates amplitude correction means for causing the amplitudes of the first read signal and the second read signal to coincide with a reference level, and the difference between the first read signal and the second read signal corrected by the amplitude correction means is calculated.
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