SIDEBANDS AND

FREQUENCY DOMAIN
 SIDEBANDS AND
FREQUENCY DOMAIN
SIDEBANDS AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN
SIDEBANDS AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN
SIDEBANDS AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN

EXAMPLE:
The modulating signal has a frequency of 20 kHz and
the carrier signal has a frequency of 30 MHz. Find the
upper and lower sidebands:
Upper sideband= 30000 kHz + 20 kHz= 30.02 MHz
Lower sideband= 30000 kHz - 20 kHz= 29.98 MHz
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SIDEBANDS AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN
SIDEBANDS AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN
SIDEBANDS AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN
SINGLE-SIDEBAND
MODULATION
SINGLE-SIDEBAND MODULATION
SINGLE-SIDEBAND MODULATION

DSB SIGNALS

The first step in generating an SSB signal is to suppress the

carrier, leaving the upper and lower sidebands. This type of
signal is referred to as a double-sideband suppressed
carrier (DSSC or DSB) signal.
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A time-domain display of a DSB AM signal.

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BALANCED MODULATOR

Double-sideband suppressed carrier signals are generated by

a circuit called a balanced modulator. The purpose of the
balanced modulator is to produce the sum and difference
frequencies but to cancel or balance out the carrier.
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When no information or modulating signal is present, no RF signal is

transmitted. In a standard AM transmitter, the carrier is still transmitted even
though it may not be modulated. This is the condition that might occur during a
voice pause on an AM broadcast. But since there is no carrier transmitted in an
SSB system, no signals are present if the information signal is zero. Sidebands
are generated only during the modulation process, e.g., when someone speaks
into a microphone. This explains why SSB is so much more efficient than AM.
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Most information signals transmitted by SSB are not pure sine waves.
A more common modulation signal is voice, with its varying frequency
and amplitude content. The voice signal creates a complex RF SSB
signal that varies in frequency and amplitude over the narrow
spectrum dei ned by the voice signal bandwidth. The waveform at the
output of the SSB modulator has the same shape as the baseband
waveform, but it is shifted in frequency.
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