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By utilizing cross-phase modulation and birefringence, we demonstrated simultaneous polarization-insensitive phase-transmultiplexing and multicasting of a single 10-Gbaud CSRZ-OOK signal and 4 <formula formulatype="inline"> <tex Notation="TeX">$\times$</tex></formula> 10-Gbaud RZ-BPSK signals to generate 4 <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$\times$ </tex></formula> 10-Gbaud RZ-QPSK signals in a photonic crystal fiber. The measured receiver sensitivity OSNR penalty at BER of <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$10^{-9}$</tex></formula> was <formula formulatype="inline"> <tex Notation="TeX">$\approx$</tex></formula>1.8 dB, relative to the FPGA-precoded RZ-DQPSK baseline, for a randomly polarized CSRZ-OOK signal, when the launch angles of all RZ-BPSK signals were fixed at <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$ \approx\!45^{\circ}$</tex></formula>. In addition, the OSNR of the remotely generated CSRZ-OOK signal could be degraded down to <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$\approx$</tex></formula>34 dB/0.1 nm, before the BER performance of the phase-transmultiplexing and multicasting operation began to degrade.