An optical disk apparatus for driving an optical disk having formed
therein sawtooth wobbles of +STW and -STW. A pickup receives a laser beam
reflected from the optical disk and supplies a reproduced signal to a
wobble signal processing section. The wobble signal processing section
differentiates the reproduced signal and binarizes the differential
signal with reference to a zero level. A pulse length of the binary
signal achieved during a positive period is compared with that of the
binary signal achieved during a negative period. When the pulse length
achieved during the positive period is longer than that achieved during
the negative period, the binary signal is determined to be a +STW. In
contrast, when the pulse length achieved during the negative period is
longer than that achieved during the positive period, the binary signal
is determined to be a -STW, whereby a wobble signal is demodulated.