An aberration detection device which can detect a spherical aberration sensitively
by separating a light beam appropriately so as to enlarge a difference in the positions
where the respective separated light beams have the minimum spot diameters, and
thus to enlarge a deviation amount of the focus positions of the separated light
beams, is provided. A hologram for separating a light beam reflected from an optical
disk and passing through a dual element objective lens into a first light beam
and a second light beam, and a detection device for receiving the first and the
second light beams and detecting the deviation of focus positions of the first
and the second light beams, are equipped. The light beam directed to the hologram
is separated into the first light beam and the second light beam, by a first region
and a second region of the hologram which are obtained by being separated at a
boundary drawn at an extreme value of a curve representing a wave front when the
light beam has a minimum beam diameter on an information recording layer of the
optical disk.