Abstract: An optical pickup has a suspension base, a holder suspended from the suspension base by wires in a form of a cantilever, an optical system provided in the holder and having a mirror and an objective mounted in a body, and a flexible wiring plate connected between the holder and the suspension base. Effective length of the flexible wiring plate for focusing is approximately equal to suspension effective length of the wire. The flexible wiring plate comprises a pair of horizontal planes perpendicular to focusing direction and a vertical plane perpendicular to tracking direction provided between the horizontal planes.