Patent 7120108 was granted and assigned to Konica on October, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An objective lens to converge a light flux having a working reference wavelength λ0 (380 nm≦λ0≦450 nm) under a working reference temperature T0 onto an optical information recording medium equipped with a protective substrate having a thickness of 0.6 mm with almost no aberration. The diffractive structural section of the objective lens has a first compensating function to compensate a change amount δSA1 of the third-order spherical aberration component of wavefront aberration caused by a fluctuation of a working wavelength, a second compensating function to compensate a deviation δWD of a converged-light spot in an optical axis direction caused by a fluctuation of a working wavelength, and a third compensating function to compensate a change amount δSA2 of the third-order spherical aberration component of wavefront aberration caused by a change of a refractive index of the lens body.