Abstract

In this work, we implement a complete probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) architecture on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) platform to study the interplay between probabilistic shaping (PS) and forward error correction (FEC). Due to the fully parallelized input–output interfaces based on look up table (LUT) and low computational complexity without high-precision multiplication, hierarchical distribution matching (HiDM) is chosen as the solution for real time probabilistic shaping. In terms of FEC, we select two kinds of the mainstream soft decision-forward error correction (SD-FEC) algorithms currently used in optical communication system, namely Open FEC (OFEC) and soft-decision quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (SD-QC-LDPC) codes. Through FPGA experimental investigation, we studied the impact of probabilistic shaping on OFEC and LDPC, respectively, based on PS-16QAM under moderate shaping, and also the impact of probabilistic shaping on LDPC code based on PS-64QAM under weak/strong shaping. The FPGA experimental results show that if pre-FEC bit error rate (BER) is used as the predictor, moderate shaping induces no degradation on the OFEC performance, while strong shaping slightly degrades the error correction performance of LDPC. Nevertheless, there is no error floor when the output BER is around 10^-15. However, if normalized generalized mutual information (NGMI) is selected as the predictor, the performance degradation of LDPC will become insignificant, which means pre-FEC BER may not a good predictor for LDPC in probabilistic shaping scenario. We also studied the impact of residual errors after FEC decoding on HiDM. The FPGA experimental results show that the increased BER after HiDM decoding is within 10 times compared to post-FEC BER.

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