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Vestigial Sideband

1. Vestigial sideband transmission (VSB) involves generating a DSB-SC signal and passing it through a filter to partially transmit one sideband and partially attenuate the other. 2. This reduces the transmission bandwidth compared to DSB while still transmitting both sidebands. VSB is nearly as bandwidth efficient as SSB but with easier filter design. 3. VSB transmission is used for television signals because it can transmit low frequency video components within a smaller bandwidth than DSB techniques.

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Vestigial Sideband

1. Vestigial sideband transmission (VSB) involves generating a DSB-SC signal and passing it through a filter to partially transmit one sideband and partially attenuate the other. 2. This reduces the transmission bandwidth compared to DSB while still transmitting both sidebands. VSB is nearly as bandwidth efficient as SSB but with easier filter design. 3. VSB transmission is used for television signals because it can transmit low frequency video components within a smaller bandwidth than DSB techniques.

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Describe Vestigial Sideband Transmission (VSB) .

Applications of Vestigial Siddeband


Transmission
AMPLITUDE MODULATION
Vestigial Sideband Transmission

To generate a VSB signal, we have to first generate a DSB-SC signal and then pass it through
a sideband filter as shown in fig. 1 . This filter will pass the wanted sideband as it is along
with a part of unwanted sideband .

Fig.1 : VSB Transmitter

Frequency Domain Description

Frequency Spectrum

(a) Spectrum of message signal- The spectrum of message signal isshown below:
(b) Spectrum of VSB Signal Fig. 2

In the frequency spectrum, it is assumed that the upper sideband is transmitted as it is and the
lower sideband is modified into vestigial sideband .

Transmission Bandwidth

From fig. 2 (b), it is evident that the transmission bandwidth of the VSB modulated wave is
given by :

Where fm = Message bandwidth


fv = Width of the vestigial sideband
Advantages of VSB

1. The main advantage of VSB modulation is the reduction in bandwidth. It is almost as


efficient as the SSB .
2. Due to allowance of transmitting a part of lower sideband, the constraint on the filter
have been relaxed . So practically, easy to design filters can be used .
3. It possesses good phase characteristics and makes the transmission of low frequency
components possible .
Application of VSB

VSB modulation has become standard for the transmission of television signal . Because the
video signal need a large transmission bandwidth if transmitted using DSB-FC or DSB-SC
techniques .

Generation of VSB Modulated Wave

The block diagram of a VSB modulator is shown in fig.3 .


Fig.3 : Generation of VSB Signal

The modulating signal x(t) is applied to a product modulator . The output of the carrier
oscillator is also applied to the other input of the product modulator . The output of the
product modulator is then given by :

m(t) = x(t) . c(t)

= x(t) . Vc cos(2π fct)


This represents a DSB-SC modulated wave .

This DSB-SC signal is then applied to a sideband shaping filter . The ddesign of this filter
depends on the desired spectrum of the VSB modulated signal.

This filter will pass the wanted sideband and the vestige of the unwanted sideband .

Let the transfer function of the filter be H(f) .

Note: Using Modulation Theorem property of Fourier Transform

Hence, the spectrum of the VSB modulated signal is given by :


Demodulation of VSB Wave

The block diagram of the VSB demodulator is shown in fig.4 .

Fig.4 : VSB demodulator

Working Operation

The VSB modulated wave is passed through a product modulator where it is multiplied with
the locally generated synchronous carrier .

Hence, the output of the product modulator is given by :

Taking the Fourier transform of both sides, we get

But

Hence, we have

The first term in the above expression represents the VSB modulated wave, corresponding to
a carrier frequency of 2fc .This term will be eliminated by the filter to produce output vo(t) .
The second term in the above expression for M(f) represents the spectrum of demodulated
VSB output .

Therefore ,

This spectrum is shown in fig.5 .

fig 5: Spectrum of VSB Demodulator

In order to obtain the undistorted message signal x(t) at the output of the demodulator, Vo(f)
should be a scaled version of X(f) .
For this the transfer function H(f) should satisfy the following conditions :

Where H( fc) is constant .

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