Introduction to Analog And Digital

Communications

Second Edition

Simon Haykin, Michael Moher

Chapter 3 Amplitude Modulation

3.1 Amplitude Modulation

3.2 Virtues, Limitations, and Modifications of Amplitude
Modulation
3.3 Double Sideband-Suppressed Carrier Modulation
3.4 Costas Receiver
3.5 Quadrature-Carrier Multiplexing
3.6 Single-Sideband Modulation
3.7 Vestigial Sideband Modulation
3.8 Baseband Representation of Modulated Waves and Band-Pass
Filters
3.9 Theme Examples
3.10 Summary and Discussion
 Modulation
 The process by which some characteristic of a carrier wave is varied in
accordance with an information-bearing signal.
 Continuous-wave modulation
 Amplitude modulation
 Frequency modulation
 AM modulation family
 Amplitude modulation (AM)
 Double sideband-suppressed carrier (DSB-SC)
 Single sideband (SSB)
 Vestigial sideband (VSB)

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 Lesson 1 : Fourier analysis provides a powerful mathematical tool
for developing mathematical as well as physical insight into the
spectral characterization of linear modulation strategies
 Lesson 2 : The implementation of analog communication is
significantly simplified by using AM, at the expense of transmitted
power and channel bandwidth
 Lesson 3 : The utilization of transmitted power and channel
bandwidth is improved through well-defined modifications of an
amplitude-modulated wave’s spectral content at the expense of
increased system complexity.

There is no free lunch in designing a communication system:

for every gain that is made, there is a price to be paid.
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 3.1 Amplitude Modulation
 Theory
 A sinusoidal carrier wave
c(t ) = Ac cos(2πf c t ) (3.1)
 An amplitude-modulated wave
s (t ) = Ac [1 + k a m(t )] cos(2πf c t ) (3.2)

 The envelope of s(t) has essentially the same shape as the message signal m(t)
provided that two conditions are satisfied :
 The amplitude of kam(t) is always less than unity
k a m(t ) < 1, for all t (3.3)
 The carrier frequency fc is much greater than the highest frequency component W
of the message signal

f c >> W (3.4)
 Envelope detector
 A device whose output traces the envelope of the AM wave acting as the input
signal
Fig. 3.1
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 The Fourier transform or spectrum of the AM wave s(t)

Ac k A
S( f ) = [δ ( f − f c ) + δ ( f + f c )] + a c [ M ( f − f c ) + M ( f + f c )] (3.5)
2 2
1
cos(2πf c t ) = [exp( j 2πf c t ) + exp(− j 2πf c t )]
2
exp( j 2πf c t ) ⇔ δ ( f − f c )

m(t ) exp( j 2πf c t ) ⇔ M ( f − f c )

 From the spectrum of Fig. 3.2(b)
1. As a result of the modulation process, the spectrum of the message signal m(t) for
negative frequencies extending from –W to 0 becomes completely visible for positive
frequencies, provided that the carrier frequency satisfies the condition fc>W ;
wherein lies the importance of the idea of “negative” frequencies, which was
emphasized in chapter 2.
2. For positive frequencies, the portion of the spectrum of an AM wave lying above the
carrier frequency fc is referred to as the upper sideband, whereas the symmetric
portion below fc is referred to as the lower sideband.
Fig. 3.2
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3. For positive frequencies, the highest frequency component of the AM wave equals
fc+W, and the lowest frequency component equals fc-W. The difference between
these two frequencies defines the transmission bandwidth BT of the AM wave, which
is exactly twice the message bandwidth W;

BT = 2W (3.6)

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 The average power delivered to a 1-ohm resistor by s(t) is comprised of three
components
1 2
Carrier power = Ac
2
1
Upper side − frequency power = µ 2 Ac2
8
1
Lower side − frequency power = µ 2 Ac2
8
 Figure 3.4 shows the percentage of total power in both side frequencies and in
the carrier plotted versus the percentage modulation.
 Notice that when the percentage modulation is less than 20 percent, the power
in one side frequency is less than 1 percent of the total power in the AM wave.

Fig. 3.4
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 Computation experiment : AM
 We will study sinusoidal modulation based on the following parameters
Carrier amplitude, Ac = 1
Carrier frequency, f c = 0.4 Hz
Modulation frequency, f m = 0.05 Hz
 It is recommended that the number of frequency samples satisfies the
condition
fs 10
M≥ = = 2000
f r 0.005

 The modulation factor μ

µ = 0.5, corresponding to undermodulation
µ = 1.0, corresponding to 100 percent modulation
µ = 2.0, corresponding to overmodulation

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 Modulation factor μ=0.5
 The lower side frequency, the carrier, and the upper side frequency are
located at (fc-fm)=±0.35 Hz, fc=±0.4 Hz, and (fc+fm)=±0.45 Hz.
 The amplitude of both side frequencies is (μ/2)=0.25 times the amplitude of
the carrier
Fig. 3.5

 Modulation factor μ=1.0 Fig. 3.6

 Modulation factor μ=2.0 Fig. 3.7

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 Enveloping detection
 Enveloping detector
 The AM wave is narrowband, which means that the carrier frequency is
large compared to the message bandwidth
 The percentage modulation in the AM wave is less than 100 percent

 So that the capacitor C charges rapidly and thereby follows the applied
voltage up to the positive peak when the diodes is conducting .

1
(rf + Rs )C <<
fc
1 1
<< Rl C <<
fc W

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 Computer experiment :
 Envelope detection for sinusoidal AM
 The envelope detector output is shown in Fig. 3.9(c).
 The numerical values used in the computation of Fig. 3.9(c)

Source resistance Rs = 75 Ω
Forwared resistance rf = 25 Ω
Load resistance Rl = 10 kΩ
Capacitance C = 0.01 µF
Message bandwidth W = 1 kHz
Carrier frequency f c = 20 kHz

Fig. 3.9
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 3.2 Virtues, Limitations, and Modifications of Amplitude
Modulation
 Practical Limitation
 Amplitude modulation is wasteful of transmitted power
 The transmission of the carrier wave therefore represents a waste of power
 Amplitude modulation is wasteful of channel bandwidth
 Insofar as the transmission of information is concerned, only one sideband is
necessary, and the communication channel therefore needs to provide only the same
bandwidth as the message signal.
 It requires a transmission bandwidth equal to twice the message bandwidth

 Three modifications of amplitude modulation

 Double sideband-suppressed carrier (DSB-SC) modulation
 The transmitted wave consists of only the upper and lower sidebands
 But the channel bandwidth requirement is the same as before
 Single sideband (SSB) modulation
 The modulated wave consists only of the upper sideband or the lower sideband
 To translate the spectrum of the modulating signal to a new location in the frequency
domain.

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 Vestigial sideband (VSB) modulation
 One sideband is passed almost completely and just a trace, of the other
sideband is retained.
 The required channel bandwidth is slightly in excess of the message
bandwidth by an amount equal to the width of the vestigial sideband.

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 3.3 Double sideband-suppressed carrier Modulation
 Theory
 DSB-SC (product modulation) consists of the product of the message
signal and the carrier wave,

s (t ) = c(t )m(t )
= Ac cos(2πf c t )m(t ) (3.8)

 Fourier transform of s(t)

1
S( f ) = Ac [ M ( f − f c ) + M ( f + f c )] (3.9)
2

 Its only advantage is saving transmitted power, which is important enough

when the available transmitted power is at a premium Fig. 3.10

Fig. 3.11
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 Coherent detection (synchronous demodulation)
 The recovery of the message signal m(t) can be accomplished by first
multiplying s(t) with a locally generated sinusoidal wave and then low-pass
filtering the product.
1 1
cos 2 (θ ) = + cos(2θ )
2 2
 The product modulation output and the filter output are
v (t ) = Ac' cos(2πf c t + φ ) s (t )
= Ac Ac' cos(2πf c t ) cos(2πf c t + φ )m(t )
1 1
= Ac Ac' cos(4πf c t + φ )m(t ) + Ac Ac' cos(φ )m(t ) (3.10)
2 2
1 1
cos(θ1 ) cos(θ 2 ) = cos(θ1 + θ 2 ) + cos(θ1 − θ 2 )
2 2

1
v0 (t ) = Ac Ac' cos(φ )m(t ) (3.11)
2 Fig. 3.12
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 The quadrature null effect
 The zero demodulated signal, when occurs for Φ=±π/2
 The phase error Φ in the local oscillator causes the detector output to be
attenuated by a factor equal to cos Φ

Fig. 3.13
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 Computer experiment : DSB-SC
1. Figure 3.14(a) displays 10 cycles of the DSB-SC modulated wave
2. To perform coherent detection,
1. The product modulator’s otuput - Multiply the DSB-SC modulated wave by
an exact replica of the carrier
2. The waveform of the coherent detector’s overall output - Pass the product
through a low-pass filter

Fig. 3.14

Fig. 3.15(a)

Fig. 3.15(b)

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 3.4 Costas Receiver
 Costas Receiver
 Consists of two coherent detectors supplied with the same input signal
 Two local oscillator signals that are in phase quadrature with respect to
each other
 I-channel : in-phase coherent detector
 Q-channel : quadrature-phase coherent detector
 Phase control in the Costas receiver ceases with modulation,
 Which means that phase-lock would have to be re-established with the
reappearance of modulation

Fig. 3.16
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 3.5 Quadrature-Carrier Multiplexing
 Quadrature-Amplitude modulation (QAM)
 This scheme enables two DSB-SC modulated waves to occupy the same
channel bandwidth
 Bandwidth-conversion system
 This system send a pilot signal outside the passband of the modulated signal –
to maintain the synchronization

s (t ) = Ac m1 (t ) cos(2πf c t ) + Ac m2 (t ) sin( 2πf c t ) (3.12)

Fig. 3.17
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 3.6 Single-Sideband Modulation
 Single-Sideband Modulation
 Suppress one of the two sideband in the DSB-SC modulated wave
 Theory
 A DSB-SC modulator using the sinusoidal modulating wave
m(t ) = Am cos(2πf mt )
 The resulting DSB-SC modulated wave is
S DSB (t ) = c(t )m(t )
= Ac Am cos(2πf c t ) cos(2πf mt )
1 1
= Ac Am cos[2π ( f c + f m )t ] + Ac Am cos[2π ( f c − f m )t ] (3.13)
2 2
 Suppressing the second term in Eq. (3.13) the upper and lower SSB
modulated wave are 1
SUSSB (t ) = Ac Am cos[2π ( f c + f m )t ] (3.14)
2
1 1
SUSSB (t ) = Ac Am cos(2πf c t ) cos(2πf mt ) − Ac Am sin( 2πf c t ) sin( 2πf mt ) (3.15)
2 2
1 1
S LSSB (t ) = Ac Am cos(2πf c t ) cos(2πf mt ) + Ac Am sin( 2πf c t ) sin( 2πf mt ) (3.16)
2 2
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 A sinusoidal SSB modulated wave
1 1
S SSB (t ) = Ac Am cos(2πf c t ) cos(2πf mt )  Ac Am sin( 2πf c t ) sin( 2πf mt ) (3.17)
2 2
 For a periodic message signal defined by the Fourier series, the SSB
modulated wave is

m(t ) = ∑ a cos(2πf t )
n
n n
(3.18)

∑ ∑ a sin(2πf t )
1 1
S SSB (t ) = Ac cos(2πf c t ) an cos(2πf nt )  Ac sin( 2πf c t ) n n (3.19)
2 n 2 n

 For another periodic signal, the SSB modulated wave is

∧

∑
m(t ) = an sin( 2πf n t ) (3.20)
n
Ac Ac ∧
S SSB (t ) = m(t ) cos(2πf c t )  m(t ) sin( 2πf c t ) (3.21)
2 2

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1. Under appropriate conditions, the Fourier series representation of a
periodic signal converges to the Fourier transform of a nonperiodic
signal
2. A Hibert transformer is a wide-band phase-shifter whose frequency
response is characterized in two parts as follows

H ( f ) = − j sgn( f ) (3.22)

 The magnitude response is unity for all frequencies, both positive and
negative
 The phase response is +90◦ for positive frequencies.

Ac Ac ∧
S (t ) = m(t ) cos(2πf c t )  m(t ) sin( 2πf c t ) (3.23)
2 2

Fig. 3.18
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 Modulators for SSB
 Frequency Discrimination Method
 For the design of the band-pass filter to be practically feasible, there must
be a certain separation between the two sidebands that is wide enough to
accommodate the transition band of the band-pass filter.
Fig. 3.19

 Phase Discrimination Method

 Wide-band phase-shifter is designed to produce the Hilbert transform in
response to the incoming message signal.
 To interfere with the in-phase path so as to eliminate power in one of the
two sidebands, depending on whether upper SSB or lower SSB is the
requirement.

Fig. 3.20
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 Coherent Detection of SSB
 Synchronization of a local oscillator in the receiver with the oscillator
responsible for generating the carrier in the transmitter
 The demodulation of SSB is further complicated by the additional
suppression of the upper or lower sideband.
Fig. 3.12
 Frequency Translation
 Single sideband modulation is in fact a form of frequency translation
 Frequency changing
 Mixing
Fig. 3.21
 Heterodyning
 Up conversion : the unshaded part of the spectrum in Fig. 3.22(b)
f 2 = f1 + f l f l = f 2 − f1
 Down conversion : the shaded part of the spectrum in Fig. 3.22(b)

f 2 = f1 − f l f l = f1 − f 2 Fig. 3.22
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 3.7 Vestigial Sideband Modulation
 For the spectrally efficient transmission of wideband signals
 Typically, the spectra of wideband signals contain significant low frequencies,
which make it impractical to use SSB modulation.
 The spectral characteristics of wideband data befit the use of DSB-SC.
However, DSB-SC requires a transmission bandwidth equal to twice the
message bandwidth, which violates the bandwidth conservation requirement.

 Vestigial sideband (VSB) modulation

 Instead of completely removing a sideband, a trace of vestige of that sideband
is transmitted, the name “vestigial sideband”
 Instead of transmitting the other sideband in full, almost the whole of this
second band is also transmitted.
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 Sideband Shaping Filter
 The band-pass filter is referred to as a sideband shaping filter
 The transmitted vestige compensates for the spectral portion missing from the
other sideband.
 The sideband shaping filter must itself satisfy the following condition.

H ( f + f c ) + H ( f − f c ) = 1, for − W ≤ f ≤ W (3.26)

 Two properties of the sideband shaping filter

1. The transfer function of the sideband shaping filter exhibits odd symmetry about the
carrier frequency

H ( f ) = u ( f − f c ) − H v ( f − f c ), for f c − f v < f < f c + W (3.27)

1, for f > 0
u( f ) =  (3.28)
0 , for f < 0

H v (− f ) = − H v ( f ) (3.29)

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2. The transfer function Hv(f) is required to satisfy the condition of Eq. (3.26)
only for the frequency interval -W≤f ≤W

Fig. 3.23
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 Coherent Detection of VSB
 The demodulation of VSB consists of multiplying s(t) with a locally
generated sinusoid and then low-pass filtering the resulting product
signal v(t)
 Fourier transform of the product signal is
v(t ) = Ac' s (t ) cos(2πf c t )
1 '
V ( f ) = Ac [ S ( f − f c ) + S ( f + f c )] (3.32)
2
s (t ) ⇔ S ( f )
1
S( f ) = Ac [ M ( f − f c ) + M ( f + f c )]H ( f ) (3.33)
2
 Shifting the VSB spectrum to the right and left
1
S ( f − fc ) = Ac [ M ( f − 2 f c ) + M ( f )]H ( f − f c ) (3.34)
2
1
S ( f + f c ) = Ac [ M ( f ) + M ( f + 2 f c )]H ( f + f c ) (3.35)
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 1
V( f ) = Ac Ac' M ( f )[ H ( f − f c ) + H ( f + f c )]
4
1
+ Ac Ac' [ M ( f − 2 f c ) H ( f − f c ) + M ( f + 2 f c ) H ( f + f c )]
4
1
V( f ) = Ac Ac' M ( f )
4
1
+ Ac Ac' [ M ( f − 2 f c ) H ( f − f c ) + M ( f + 2 f c ) H ( f + f c )] (3.36)
4

 The low-pass filter in the coherent detector has a cutoff frequency just
slightly greater than the message bandwidth
 The result demodulated signal is a scaled version of the desired
message signal.

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 3.8 Baseband Representation of Modulated Waves and Band=Pass
Filters
 Baseband
 Is used to designate the band of frequencies representing the original
signal as delivered by a source of information

 Baseband Representation of Modulation Waves

 A linear modulated wave
s (t ) = s1 (t ) cos(2πf c t ) − sQ (t ) sin( 2πf c t ) (3.39)
c(t ) = cos(2πf c t )
∧
c(t ) = sin( 2πf c t )
 The modulated wave in the compact form – canonical representation of
linear modulated waves
∧
s (t ) = s I (t )c(t ) − sQ (t ) c(t ) (3.40)

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 The complex envelope of the modulated wave is
~
s (t ) = s I (t ) + jsQ (t ) (3.41)
 The complex carrier wave and the modulated wave is
~ ∧
c(t ) = c(t ) + j c(t )
= cos(2πf c t ) + j sin( 2πf c t )
= exp( j 2πf c t ) (3.42)
s (t ) = Re s (t ) c(t )
 ~ ~

 

= Re s (t ) exp( j 2πf c t ) (3.43)

 ~

 
Table. 3.1
 The practical advantage of the complex envelope
 The highest frequency component of s(t) may be as large as fc+W, where fc is the
carrier frequency and W is the message bandwidth
 On the other hand, the highest frequency component of ŝ (t) is considerably smaller,
being limited by the message bandwidth W.
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 Baseband Representation of Band-pass Filters
 The desire to develop the corresponding representation for band-pass filters,
including band-pass communication channels
~
H ( f − f c ) = 2 H ( f ), for f > 0 (3.44)
 We may determine Ĥ(f) by proceeding as follows
 Given the transfer function H(f) of a band-pass filter, which is defined for both
positive and negative frequencies, keep the part of H(f) that corresponds to positive
frequencies; let H+(f) denote this part.
 Shift H+(f) to the left along the frequency axis by an amount equal to fc, and scale it
by the factor 2. The result so obtained defines the desired Ĥ(f).
 Actual output y(t) is determined from the formula

y (t ) = Re y (t ) exp( j 2πf c t ) (3.45)

 ~

 

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 3.9 Theme Examples
 Superheterodyne Receiver (supersht)
 Carrier-frequency tunning, the purpose of which is to select the desired
signal
 Filtering, which is required to separate the desired signal from other
modulated signals that may be picked up along the way.
 Amplification, which is intended to compensate for the loss of signal power
incurred in the course of transmission.

 It overcomes the difficulty of having to build a tunable highly frequency-

selective and variable filter
f IF = f RF − f LO (3.46)
Table. 3.2
 Intermediate frequency (IF)
 Because the signal is neither at the original input frequency nor at the final
baseband frequency

Fig. 3.27
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 Television Signals
1. The video signal exhibits a large bandwidth and significant low-
frequency content, which suggest the use of vestigial sideband
modulation.
2. The circuitry used for demodulation in the receiver should be simple
and therefore inexpensive. This suggest the use of envelope detection,
which requires the addition of a carrier to the VSB modulated wave.

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 Frequency-Division Multiplexing
 To transmit a number of these signals over the same channel, the
signals must be kept apart so that they do not interfere with each other,
and thus they can be separated at the receiving end.
 Frequency-division multiplexing (FDM)
 Time-division multiplexing (TDM)

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 3.10 Summary and Discussion
 The example modulated wave is
s (t ) = Ac m(t ) cos(2πf c t ) (3.47)
1. Amplitude modulation (AM), in which the upper and lower sidebands are
transmitted in full, accompanied by the carrier wave
 Demodulation of the AM wave is accomplished equally simply in the receiver by
using an envelope detector
2. Double sideband-suppressed carrier (DSB-SC) modulation, in which only
the upper and lower sidebands are transmitted.
 This advantage of DSB-SC modulation over AM is, attained at the expense of
increased receiver complexity.
3. Single sideband (SSB) modulation, in which only the upper sideband or
lower sideband is transmitted.
 It requires the minimum transmitted power and the minimum channel bandwidth
for conveying a message signal from one point to another.
4. Vestigial sideband modulation, in which “almost” the whole of one
sideband and a “vestige” of the other sideband are transmitted in a
prescribed complementary fashion
 VSB modulation requires an channel bandwidth that is intermediate between
that required for SSB and DSB-SC systems, and the saving in bandwidth can be
significant if modulating signals with large bandwidths are being handled.
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