An optical waveguide device expands the operable frequency range toward the higher
frequency side. The device includes a single-mode optical resonator waveguide serving
as an optical ring resonator, a single-mode optical input/output waveguide located
close to the resonator waveguide in an area, and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer
formed in such a way as to include a part of the resonator waveguide as its first
optical waveguide arm and a part of the input/output waveguide as its second optical
waveguide arm in the area. The interferometer has a first optical coupler for optically
coupling the first and second waveguide arms with an input-side part of the input/output
waveguide and a remaining part of the resonator waveguide due to multiple-mode
optical interference, and a second optical coupler for optically coupling the first
and second waveguide arms with an output-side part of the input/output waveguide
and the remaining part of the resonator waveguide due to multiple-mode optical interference.