6.

DOUBLE SIDE-BAND
1. OVERVIEW

An AM signal has a carrier, an upper sideband, and a lower sideband. The carrier, by itself,
contains no information and the information in each sideband is just a mirrored version of that
in the other sideband. Hence, the carrier is a waste of transmitted power, and sending both
sidebands is redundant and requires twice the bandwidth needed to convey the same information
(usually voice).

Usually the term "double sideband" (DSB) refers to a signal sent with the carrier suppressed. As
described above, double sideband with full carrier is usually just referred to as Amplitude
Modulation (AM). Sending the carrier makes it easier for the receiver (provides a frequency
reference for the sidebands), so sometimes the carrier is only partially suppressed. DSB is rarely
used anymore because single sideband (SSB) is a lot easier to generate than it used to.

Suppressing both the carrier and one sideband (single sideband) is much more efficient in both
bandwidth and power. It doesn't matter whether you send the upper or lower sideband, but the
receiver has to know which, or the operator was to try both, to get the right information.

ANSWER TO THE QUESTIONS

In the instruction given, we are going to demonstrate four kinds of double-sideband related signal,
Consists of three variant of double-sideband signal and one variant of single-sideband signal. The
files are quiet executable and unlike previous files, we don’t need to enter some frequency or
value. We are just obliged to observe and analyze.

THE ORIGINAL DOUBLE SIDEBAND MONOTONE

The first is about the purest form of

double-sideband signal modulation. The
monotone double-sideband (MONO-
DSB for short)

The diagram in the MATLAB result

comes in a pretty straightforward way.
The results are the modulated signal in
the upper segment of the diagram. And
in the bottom segment, consists of the
frequency of carrier signal that carries
the information that needed to be sent.
If we look carefully we could observe the
Pic 1 The result of double sideband monotone
frequency of modulated signal is 500.
What we can’t look in the diagram is the process of how the wave came in to forms. Of course
there is no doubt that carrier signal and message signal came in to play. The frequency of carrier
and message signal is at 500 and 10 respectively. And with each amplitude of 20 and 10

clear all, close

clc
%DSB Monotone
N = 1024; %N point
FFT N>fc to avoid freq
domain aliasing
fs = 4096; % sample
frequency
t = (0:N-1)/fs;
fc = 500; %Carrier
Frequency
fm1 = 10;
%message signal
frequency
Ec = 20; %Carrier
Amplitude
Em1 = 10; %message
signal amplitudes

Code 1 : Code for the MONO-DSB,

the highlighted part are where the Pic 2 In order, The Carrier, Message and Modulated Signal in Time Domain Representation
frequency and amplitude declared

The rule of thumb of remembering how the double

band signal is behaving, is that there is upper
sideband and lower sideband, and each of them is
usually a mirror of one and another. But in this plain
modulation of double side band, there is another
thing that has to be taken into account. The carrier
wave also has a frequency too. So when we mapped
the modulated signal to the frequency domain
range, we basically seeing carrier signal dominantly
showed in the plot. With a little bit of upper side
band and lower sideband in the right and left. My
apologies for bad hand writing.
The following is a different approach in DSB, it is DSB Full Carrier, it is can be actually shown in
the figure that there is a high peak in the frequency domain. The peak is actually came from
frequency domain, concluding that in DSB Full Carrier, the carrier is dominantly seen in it.

The third form, is the Double Side Band - Suppressed Carrier, that is suppresing that dominant
carrier frequency from the carrier signal. The DSB SC looked like this in the MATLAB PLOT

The DSB-SC absent of any carrier signal peak in the frequency domain.
Then lastly, the signal comes from the DSB can be cut in half in term of it’s waveform and it’s
transmitting energy. This form is called SSB or single side band. The waveform cut in half forming
upper side band and lower sideband. The following is a form of SSB.