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We experimentally demonstrate an all-optical approach for generating frequency-shift keying (FSK) radio-frequency (RF) signal based on nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) in a highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF). A continuous wave probe beam is polarization-rotated by an optical amplitude-shift keying control beam via NPR in the HNLF. After removing the undesired control beam by a tunable optical filter, the polarization-rotated probe beam is converted to an intensity-modulated optical signal using a polarizer. By carefully adjusting the polarization controller before the polarizer and the optical power of the control beam, FSK RF signals are generated after photodetection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose an orthogonal modulation scheme with 40 Gb/s Manchester-coded (MC) payload and 2.5 Gb/s frequency-shift keying (FSK) label. The high-speed FSK label is generated by an FSK modulator, which consists of two modulators, while MC payload is generated by an intensity modulator. Simulation results show that the available extinction ratio of FSK and amplitude-shift keying with MC payload can improve from 5.1 to 11.2 dB, compared with the traditional not-return-to-zero payload. The receiver sensitivities of both MC payload and FSK label show a remarkable improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]