A signal processing method is provided. Under the method, a first digital signal can be obtained by an optical transmitter. The first digital signal is a one-dimensional bipolar digital signal. A spectral compression and filtering can be performed by the optical transmitter on the first digital signal to generate a second digital signal. A frequency shift can be performed by the optical transmitter on the second digital signal such that a center location of a spectrum of the frequency-shifted second digital signal is at a frequency of 0.