An optical pickup device according to the present invention is constituted so that a laser beam emitted from a light receiving and emitting integral-type element is transmitted or reflected by a beam splitter, transformed to a parallel beam by a collimator lens, introduced into an objective lens, transmitted through the objective lens, and collected on a recording surface of an optical disc and the laser beam thus collected is returned to the light receiving and emitting integral-type element via a reverse path after the laser beam is reflected by the recording surface of the optical disc. The optical pickup device includes a front monitor light receiving element that is arranged between the light receiving and emitting integral-type element and the collimator lens, receives a part of the laser beam emitted from the light receiving and emitting element, and detects a quantity of the received laser beam. The front monitor light receiving element includes a received-light-quantity increasing unit that increases the quantity of the received laser beam.