The optical pickup apparatus includes a light emitting means, an optical means, and an optical detection means. The light emitting means emits a single beam. The optical means diffracts the single beam, focuses the optical spot of the diffracted beam on a track, and transmits the diffracted beam to an outside. The optical detection means includes a first optical detection unit on which a central beam having a 0-order diffraction coefficient is focused, and second and third optical detection units on which side beams having ±1 diffraction coefficients are focused, respectively. Each optical detection unit is segmented into a specific number of optical detection areas, and at least one of the optical detection units is provided with an optical detection area on which a tracking error signal used to compensate for tracking offset attributable to optical axis offset of an objective lens is not formed.