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.

 
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