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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2004
Osamu Nagatsuka, Kawasaki, JP;
Osamu Nagatsuka, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides an optical disk apparatus and an optical pickup which are of a thin type and capable of correcting spherical aberration, including: a semiconductor laser for emitting light; an objective lens for condensing the light from the semiconductor laser on a recording layer through a light transmission layer; at least two optical elements arranged between the semiconductor laser and the objective lend and having a predetermined refractive power; a spherical aberration correction element driving mechanism for moving at least one of the optical elements along an optical axis so as to cancel spherical aberration of imaging light on the recording layer; and a lens holder for holding at least one of the optical elements, a part of the lens folder being inserted into an opening of a cartridge and which.