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Amplitude Modulation: - Double Sideband and Large Carrier

Amplitude modulation is discussed where a separate carrier term is transmitted with a DSB-SC AM signal to facilitate simple demodulation in receivers. An envelope detector can then demodulate the AM signal if the carrier is much larger than the bandwidth of the message signal and the modulated signal is always positive. The output of the envelope detector has ripples which are smoothed by a low pass filter.

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Amplitude Modulation: - Double Sideband and Large Carrier

Amplitude modulation is discussed where a separate carrier term is transmitted with a DSB-SC AM signal to facilitate simple demodulation in receivers. An envelope detector can then demodulate the AM signal if the carrier is much larger than the bandwidth of the message signal and the modulated signal is always positive. The output of the envelope detector has ripples which are smoothed by a low pass filter.

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Amplitude Modulation

• Modulated waveforms with suppressed carrier terms require


fairly complex circuitry at the receiver to acquire
frequency/phase synchronization i.e., coherent detection,
which makes receivers expensive to manufacture.
• In applications where we have one or few transmitters and
much larger number of receivers e.g., AM/FM radio
broadcasting, it makes economic sense that the receivers are
as simple as possible.
• To facilitate simple demodulation we consider the idea of
transmitting a separate carrier term in the same frequency
band as a DSB-SC AM signal.
– Double Sideband and Large Carrier
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AM: Double Sideband Large Carrier

Its Fourier spectrum,

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AM: Double Sideband Large Carrier
• The size of affects the time domain envelope of the modulated signal.

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AM: Demodulation
• A simple and inexpensive envelope detector can demodulate AM signal if
– 𝑓 ≫ BW of 𝑚(𝑡)
– 𝐴 + 𝑚(𝑡) ≥ 0 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡
• AM: Envelope detector

• When and
– Diode is forward biased and conducts
– 𝐶 charges to the maximum value of 𝜑 𝑡
• When and/or
– Diode is reversed bias, does not conduct
– 𝐶 discharge over 𝑅
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AM: Envelope Detector

• Output of the envelope detector


– It has ripples
– Exhibits a DC component
• Solution?
– Use Low pass filter to smooth ripples
– Use a DC blocking unit

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