SSB and VSB Modulation

Techniques
ØDSB has two sidebands, USB and LSB
ØSSB has one half of the bandwidth of DSB

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 SSB (Cont.)
SSB-SC

SSB signal can be coherently (synchronously) demodulated by

multiplying it by cos ωct (exactly like DSB-SC). Example of
USB demodulation is:

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SSB (Cont.)

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SSB (Cont.)

F -1

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SSB (Cont.)

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 SSB (Cont.)
Substitute with

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 SSB (Cont.)
Φ LSB (ω) = M+ ( ω + ωc ) + M- ( ω - ωc )

ΦLSB (t) = m+ (t) e -jωct + m- (t) e jωct

Substitute with

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SSB (Cont.)

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Determination of mh (t)

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SSB (Cont.)

Hilbert transform

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SSB (Cont.)

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 SSB (Cont.)
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Solution

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Example (Cont.)

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Example (Cont.)

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Ø Most commonly used
Ø DSB is passed through BPF to eliminate undesired band
Ø To obtain USB, the filter should pass all components
above ωc and attenuate all components below ωc
Difficult to design sharp cutoff filter

Voice spectrum

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Generation of SSB signals (Cont.)

Difficult to build
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Envelope detection of SSB with carrier (SSB+C)

If ‘A’ is large enough m(t) can be recovered by

envelop detection

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Envelope detection of SSB with carrier
(SSB+C) (Cont.)

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Amplitude modulation: Vestigial Sideband (VSB)
ØDue to the difficulties in generating SSB signals

VSB is used
ØVSB is asymmetric system
ØVSB is a compromise between DSB and SSB
ØVSB is easy to generate and its bandwidth is only 25 -
33% greater than SSB

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VSB (Cont.)

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VSB (Cont.)

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VSB (Cont.)
Solution

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Use of VSB in television broadcast

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