An optical information apparatus comprises an optical pick-up head including: a light source emitting a light beam; a diffraction unit receiving a beam emitted from the light source to generate a plurality of diffracted beams composed of a 0th order diffracted light beam and a 1st or higher order diffracted light beam; a condensing unit receiving the plurality of diffracted beams from the diffraction unit and condensing the beams onto an optical recording medium; a beam splitter receiving the plurality of beams reflected from the optical recording medium and splitting the beams; and a photodetector receiving the beams split by the beam splitter and outputting signals in accordance with amounts of the received light beams, wherein the 0th order diffraction light beam generated in the diffraction unit is set to be a main beam, and two 1st or higher order diffracted light beams generated in the diffraction unit are set to be a first sub-beam and a second sub-beam; the photodetector has a plurality of light-receiving portions; and the main beam, the first sub-beam, and the second sub-beam are received by the plurality of light-receiving portions, respectively. The apparatus further comprises a tracking error signal generator generating a tracking error signal for irradiating a desired track with a beam. The optical recording medium has an information recording surface for recording information, the optical recording medium has a reflective surface for reflecting the beam to a region other than the information recording surface when the beam is condensed onto the information recording surface, and guide grooves are formed on the optical recording medium. The optical recording medium has tracks for recording information, arranged substantially at a constant pitch, on the information recording surface, and the tracks are provided on the guide grooves or between the guide grooves. When the main beam is placed on the track, the first sub-beam and the second sub-beam are respectively placed between the tracks. The tracking error signal generator performs a differential arithmetic operation with respect to signals output from the light-receiving portion receiving the main beam to generate a first push-pull signal, performs a differential arithmetic operation with respect to signals output from the light-receiving portions receiving the first sub-beam and the second sub-beam to generate a second push-pull signal, and performs a differential arithmetic operation with respect to the first push-pull signal and the second push-pull signal to generate the tracking error signal. Regions in a vicinity of centers of the main beam, the first sub-beam, and the second sub-beam are split by providing the beam splitter in an optical path from the optical information recording medium to the photodetector, the first push-pull signal is generated without using the region in the vicinity of the center of the main beam, and the second push-pull signal is generated without using the regions in the vicinity of the centers of the first sub-beam and the second sub-beam.