Comparison of bidirectional BPON and MDM-PON system on distance, power, insertion losses and attenuation

Passive optical networks (PONs) are more proficient to meet the demand of huge bandwidth and high capacity technologies in optical communication system. PON is point to multipoint networks and also enhances the network efficiency and reduces network termination cost. In this paper, we compare the performance and operational difference of proposed bidirectional broadband passive optical network (BPON) with previous bidirectional mode division multiplexing (MDM-PON) system based on various parameters are transmission distance, power, insertion losses and attenuation at 1550nm wavelength in downstream direction. The performance of BPON is measured by variations of factors such as minimum BER and quality factor. If BER of system decreases then quality factor increases and vice versa.