The invention discloses a linear digital phase 
demodulation method for a high-spectral-efficiency coherent 
optical link, and relates to the technical field of 
optical communication, the technical field of microwaves and the field of 
digital signal processing. The method is as shown in figure 1 in the specification, and comprises two lasers CW1 and CW2, a polarization 
multiplexing Mach-Zehnder modulator PDMMZM, a 25km single-mode 
optical fiber SMF, two polarization controllers PC1 and PC2, an integrated coherent 
receiver ICR, an analog-to-
digital converter ADC and a 
digital signal processing module DSP. 
Intensity modulation and 
phase modulation are respectively carried out on two 
radio frequency signals RF in an optical carrier orthogonal polarization state by using PDMMZM, the polarizationstates of a modulated optical 
signal and a local oscillation optical 
signal are manually adjusted through two PCs, the modulated optical 
signal and the local oscillation optical signal are sent to anICR for coherent detection, and then the signals are sent to a DSP module through ADC sampling to complete linear 
demodulation. According to the invention, coherent detection is combined with a 
digital signal processing technology to realize signal 
demodulation. The method has the advantages of 
high spectral efficiency, good 
linearity, high sensitivity, capability of effectively suppressing phasenoise and the like.