The invention relates to the technical field of coherent light communication, and provides a digital
subcarrier multiplexing coherent light communication
system and method, the
system divides a single
carrier signal into a plurality of
subcarrier signals for respective modulation, and the
system comprises a transmitting module, a channel unit and a receiving module; the transmitting module is used for modulating and transmitting a
subcarrier multiplexing signal based on a DSP (
Digital Signal Processor)
algorithm, and comprises a wide-area complex recursive least square
algorithm; the transmitting module performs
hybrid modulation on the plurality of subcarrier signals; half of the subcarrier signals are configured with preposed pilots. According to the invention, based on the wide-area complex number recursive least square
algorithm, the subcarrier
signal is converted from a real number to a wide-area complex number, a significant
modulation effect is still achieved under high-frequency attenuation, and the
bit error rate performance is improved; the transmitting module performs
hybrid modulation on a plurality of subcarrier signals, and configures different code rates of
forward error correction codes according to the order of each subcarrier
signal modulation format, so that the spectrum efficiency is improved; and only half of the subcarrier signals need to be configured with the preposed
pilot frequency, so that the
pilot frequency overhead is reduced.