An optical power splitter that can minimize the chip size with its
manufacturing cost. The optical power splitter has one input optical
waveguide and N output optical waveguides and splits an optical signal
incident from the input optical waveguide into N optical signals. The
optical power splitter includes at least two optical splitters having a
structure of a planar lightwave circuit element and arranged apart from
one another at predetermined intervals in a single chip, and an alignment
waveguide for aligning the input and output optical waveguides of the
plurality of optical splitters.