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The present invention is an optical multiplex communication system in which an optical wavelength division channel and an optical code division channel can coexist, wherein a WDM channel section 86 has a wavelength demultiplexer 36 and WDM channels W1 to W4. An optical pulse string 83-3 is demultiplexed by the wavelength demultiplexer 36, and for channel W1, an optical pulse 37 with wavelength λ1 is input to an intensity modulator 114 and converted into an optical pulse signal of channel W1, and is output as a wavelength division optical pulse signal 115, where transmission information of channel W1 is reflected. An optical delay unit 116 provides a required time delay to a wavelength division optical pulse signal, so as to not match a position of an optical pulse constituting a wavelength division optical pulse signal 117 on a time base, and a position of a chip pulse constituting an encoded optical pulse signal which comes from an OCDM channel, and has a same wavelength as this optical pulse, on a time base.
