21.77 Tbps WDM-SDM-PDM Self-Homodyne Coherent Optical Transmission Based on Probabilistic Amplitude Shaping With Cascaded Staircase and Hamming Codes

This paper proposes a probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) scheme with systematic cascaded staircase and Hamming codes (CSHC). The integration of low-complexity concatenated codes within PAS and the use of the SIHO decoder are enabled by applying the inter-bit independence assumption. This ensures compatibility with high throughput transmission. In addition, the use of a reduced test pattern set in the SIHO decoder reduces the test pattern cardinality by 34.37%. The proposed scheme is experimentally demonstrated by self-homodyne coherent transmission over a 22.5 km 7-core fiber, with 21 wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) channels in the C-band is demonstrated. The total rate of the WDM-space division multiplexing (SDM) system is 21.77 Tbit/s. The experimental results show that the proposed PAS scheme with CSHC provides a gain of more than 8 dB in the back-to-back (BtB) scenario at the pre-FEC BER of 2.88E-2. Moreover, an average gain of 7.26 dB is achieved at the same threshold in WDM-SDM transmission.