Abstract: An optical pickup includes at least two vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSEL) disposed adjacent to each other on the same substrate for emitting light having different emission angles, a light path converter for converting the travel path of incident light, an objective lens for focusing incident light to form an optical spot on an optical recording medium, and an optical detector for receiving light which is reflected by the optical recording medium and passed through the objective lens and the light path converter. The optical pickup selectively drives one of the VCSELs so that disks of different thicknesses can be compatibly adopted, and high efficiency of light can be secured.