The present invention has an object to provide an optical apparatus of
VIPA-type for achieving the reduction of the inter-channel loss deviation
to realize a high accurate demultiplexing function. To this end, the
optical apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a
collimator lens converting an input light into a parallel light; a phase
mask changing a phase of the parallel light from the collimator lens to
change the intensity distribution into a shape different from the
Gaussian distribution; a line focal lens condensing the light output from
the phase mask onto a one-dimensional direction; and a VIPA plate
multi-reflecting the light condensed by the line focal lens to emit the
multi-reflected light.