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  High-speed polarization-shift keying: experimental and numerical investigation# LI Zhengyong, WANG Zhihao, YU Xiangzhi, WU Chongqing* 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 (Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Optical Information of Ministry of Education and Institute of Optical Information, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044) Abstract: Polarization-shift keying (PolSK), which is performed based on two orthogonal polarization states, has been investigated in detail by experiment and numerical simulation for data rate of 10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s. Using a general Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator, a new type of PolSK transmitter has been presented and demonstrated for the first time by polarization coupling technology. And then the PolSK transmission has been experimentally demonstrated in a 50-km single mode fiber system, whose eye diagrams show that the PolSK transmitter works well at 10 Gb/s and the power fluctuation is 8%. Further simulation reveals that the PolSK has great potential in long distance transmission with data rate of 40 Gb/s, while its error-free distance goes beyond 2100 km. Keywords: Optical fiber communication; modulation; polarization-shift keying 0 Introduction As data rate of optical fiber communication increases to 40-Gb/s and above, traditional modulation formats are facing a serial tough challenges[1], which pushes more researchers to pursue new modulation formats. At present, polarization modulation or polarization-shift keying (PolSK) is becoming a promising approach since it has more advantages such as power equalization, better polarization characteristics, less power penalty, and so on, thus greatly reduce the nonlinear effects, suppress the polarization mode dispersion (PMD), and improve the spectrum efficiency[1,2]. Recently the virtues of the polarization modulation technology have been gradually revealed by experiment, for example, simply increasing the polarization alternation of encoded signals can efficiently prevent the nonlinear degrad