Abstract: A skew of an optical pickup device can be adjusted by a movable-side member itself which holds thereon an objective lens. A holder which holds an objective lens is supported by four spring wires such that it can be moved in the focusing direction and the tracking direction of an optical disk. A center of a magnetic circuit which drives the holder is shifted in the outer peripheral side relative to the optical disk. Elastic force of the spring wires of the inner peripheral side is suppressed by increasing the amount of a gel material bonded to the spring wires located on the inner peripheral side of the optical disk as a damping material as compared with the amount of the gel material bonded to the spring wires located on the outer peripheral side.

Abstract: A skew of an optical pickup device can be adjusted by a movable-side member itself which holds thereon an objective lens, A holder which holds an objective lens is supported by four spring wires such that it can be moved in the focusing direction and the tracking direction of an optical disk. A center of a magnetic circuit which drives the holder is shifted in the outer peripheral side relative to the optical disk. Elastic force of the spring wires of the inner peripheral side is suppressed by increasing the amount of a gel material bonded to the spring wires located on the inner peripheral side of the optical disk as a damping material as compared with the amount of the gel material bonded to the spring wires located on the outer peripheral side.

Abstract: An objective lens, a reproducing apparatus and a reproducing method using a single objective lens for a DVD which can also read a CD without adding any peripheral member can be obtained. In an objective lens which is arranged so that a light beam emitted form a common light source (11) may be focused through a common objective lens (8) on respective signal recorded surfaces (1a), (2a) of a DVD (2) and a CD (1) having light transmitting layers (1c), (2c) of different thicknesses, an area of the objective lens (8) for the DVD (2) in a range of a numerical aperture NA from 0 to 0.3-0.4 from the light axis is worked to form correcting lens surface 8a for correcting the aberration caused when reading the CD (1) through the objective lens for the DVD (2), thereby allowing the CD to be read through the objective lens for the DVD.