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Abstract Intensity-modulation direct-detection (IM/DD) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has advantages of low cost and simple structure, which is a promising candidate for next-generation high-speed passive optical networks. In this work, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a look-up-table-based probabilistic shaping scheme assisted by selective-mapping (SLM) and flexible systematic polar code (SPC) to improve the performance of IM/DD 64-QAM OFDM transmission system. Meanwhile, we experimentally compare the performance between the proposed scheme and the joint constant composition distribution matching (CCDM) and low-density parity-check (LDPC). Here, abundant phase sequences in the SLM are generated by chaotic sequence to suppress peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). The pre-set bits of SPC are utilized for the additional information of probabilistic shaping to reduce the redundancy and the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) aided successive cancellation list (CA-SCL) decoder is used for decoding. Joint probabilistic shaping and PAPR suppression have contributed 4.6-dB and 3-dB bit error ratio performance improvements for the IM/DD 64-QAM OFDM transmission system in the pre and post forward error correction (FEC), respectively.