Laser beams respectively emitted from a SHG blue laser unit and a red
semiconductor laser unit that have photo detectors respectively are
turned into parallel lights by a collimator lens and then coupled by a
dielectric multi-layer film mirror so as to be propagated on the same
optical axis. The dielectric multi-layer film mirror is configured so as
to transmit light with a wavelength of 500 nm or shorter and reflect
light with a wavelength of 500 nm or longer for both P wave and S wave.
The lights that are transmitted and reflected by the dielectric
multi-layer film mirror pass through a polarizing hologram and a phase
variable wave plate and are focused on an optical disk by an objective
lens. In this manner, a simple configuration can realize a compatibility
with many types of optical disks and a stable signal detection even when
using a polarizing optical detection system.