An optical add-drop multiplexer successively comprises a first ferrule, a first
graded index (GRIN) lens with a bandpass filter attached thereon, an optical crystal,
a second GRIN lens, and a second ferrule. An input and an output optical fiber
are stationed in the first ferrule, and a dropping and an adding optical fiber
are stationed in the second ferrule. An optical multiplexed signal from the input
optical fiber is transmitted through the first GRIN lens to the bandpass filter.
From the bandpass filter, an optical signal having a wavelength identical to a
central wavelength of the bandpass filter is output to the dropping optical fiber,
and other optical signals having other wavelengths are coupled with an optical
signal from the adding optical fiber having a wavelength identical to the central
wavelength of the bandpass filter and are transmitted to the output optical fiber.