A wavelength selector switch includes first and second refracting plates,
an optical splitter, first and second optical systems, an optical coupler
polarization controller, and second refracting plate. The first
refracting plate refracts the second wavelength-multiplexed light beam.
The optical splitter spatially splits into a plurality of wavelength
components light beams. The first optical system changes the wavelength
components into parallel light beams. The polarization controller
selectively changes a polarization angle of each of the parallel light
beams. The second optical system condenses the parallel light beams. The
optical coupler multiplexes into a third wavelength-multiplexed light
beam the parallel light beams condensed. The second refracting plate
directs wavelength components of the third wavelength-multiplexed light
beam to the first and second optical output ports depending on their
polarization angles.