Bandwidth hungry applications along with the increasing number of internet users are pushing the edge networks to provide higher bandwidths. Fiber optic cables have high bandwidth capacity and can carry large amounts of data, has lowest transmission loss in the c-band, and the number of available optical carriers have to be optimally used, to get highest spectral efficiency as well as capacity. For short-reach communications, intensity modulation/direct detection technique offers the simplest and lowest cost/bit solution. There is scope of doubling the bandwidth capacity of the optical fiber, using polarization division multiplexing, on each wavelength, for short reach communications. The study focuses on the experiment of optical carrier with x and y polarization components carrying data independently. By exploiting both x and y polarizations as independent carriers of the 1550 nm wavelength, the capacity of transmission is doubled. We have generated linearly polarized and circularly polarized light using polarization controllers (PC) and transmitted over single mode fiber (SMF) of 50 km length, and also through polarization maintaining fiber (PMF) of length 10 m. The transmission loss of polarization maintaining fiber is significantly higher than SMF and hence only 10 m length is used. The comparison of the above two transmitted signals shows that, it is possible to carry independent x-pol and y-pol signals over SMF, provided the fiber doesnot go through physical disturbances (vibrations). Both x-pol and y-pol signals are successfully transmitted/received and observed on the Digital Storage Oscilloscope (DSO). In our future work, we plan to carryout transmission at higher bit rates.