The present invention expands a selective wavelength band and flattens
light intensity in the selective wavelength band as good as or better than
prior art, and makes power loss less than prior art. The invention as a
period characteristic wavelength splitter and an arrayed waveguide
diffraction grating wavelength splitter between the first input/output
port and the second input/output port in this sequence. The period
characteristic wavelength splitter is comprised of the third star coupler,
the second arrayed waveguide comprised of multiple waveguides having
different optical path lengths, and the fourth star coupler. When an
optical signal is input from the first input/output port, the period
characteristic wavelength splitter outputs optical signals which
wavelengths sequentially deviated with difference .delta. from multiple
ports at the first star coupler side of the fourth star coupler. The
optical signals which can be output from the multiple ports are all
periodic optical signals with waveform difference .DELTA..lambda.for any
one of the ports.