US Patent 7450486 Optical pickup and optical information processing apparatus

An optical pickup performing recording, reproduction and deletion of information on or from an optical recording medium. The pickup includes light sources for information recording media using a blue wavelength beam, information recording media of DVD family and information recording media of CD family. A single object lens may be used to condense light from any of the light sources. A single aberration correction device may be disposed in a common light path between each of the light sources and the object lens.