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Ideas About Envelope Detector

The document discusses envelope detectors and how they extract the original signal from a modulated signal. It explains that analyzing the concepts in the frequency domain provides clearer understanding than the time domain. The key condition that the RC time constant must be much smaller than the signal period and much larger than the carrier period is difficult to understand in the time domain but clear in the frequency domain.

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Ideas About Envelope Detector

The document discusses envelope detectors and how they extract the original signal from a modulated signal. It explains that analyzing the concepts in the frequency domain provides clearer understanding than the time domain. The key condition that the RC time constant must be much smaller than the signal period and much larger than the carrier period is difficult to understand in the time domain but clear in the frequency domain.

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Understand all the needed ideas about envelope

detector in time and frequency domain










By : Oussama Gassab

Contact : [email protected]



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1- to understand how the envelope detector demodulate the
signal (( how it extract the original signal s(t) from the
modulated signal x(t) )) and why the condition

1
RC

0

must be achieved , we have to analyze the concepts in frequency
domain
When look to the phenomena of envelope detector in time
domain we will see only the detection of the envelope ,
when the capacitor is charged and discharged, and all the
other amazing concepts cannot be seen
Because when we try to construct and prove the relation

1
RC

0
we will only say that the period of the charging
capacitor must be very large than the period of the frequency
0

so
0

0

1
RC

0

But when we try to prove

1
RC
we will not have clear
vision in time domain .
To take very clear understand we have to observe the
phenomena in both time and frequency domains.


Since the AM signal is in the
form
= 1 +
0

The diode is On for the
positive wave of
0
and
is Off in the negative wave

So the diode will follow the following graph










The Fourier series of this signal
=
1
2
+
2

(1)

2 +1
+
=0
cos(2 + 1)
0

So the current i(t) is

= where = 1 +
0
so
= 1 +
1
2

0
+
2

2 +1

0

+
=0
cos(2 +1)
0

We have

0
cos2 + 1
0
=
1
2
cos2 + 2
0
+ cos(2)
0

With small simplification we got :
= 1 +
1

+
1
2

0

2

4
2
1
2
0

+
=1

We have obtained the Fourier series of the current through the
diode
When we drew the spectrum () of the current , we will
observe
If the spectrum of s(t) is given by




0
t
d(t)
1







Than the spectrum of () is given by







The resistor and the capacitor circuit
construct low pass filter with transfer
function
=

1+
the cutoff frequency is
1

and

R
its graph as shown
below . when the current passes
through this low pass filter
We will obtain the original signal as
Shown below


So to retain our signal that must
1
RC
must be between
0


and

and since
0

that is mean
1
RC
must satisfy the
condition

1
RC

0

As an remark we have always to understand any phenomena in
both time and frequency domains in order to get complete
understanding about this phenomena

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