Continue to Site

Welcome to our site!

Electro Tech is an online community (with over 170,000 members) who enjoy talking about and building electronic circuits, projects and gadgets. To participate you need to register. Registration is free. Click here to register now.

  • Welcome to our site! Electro Tech is an online community (with over 170,000 members) who enjoy talking about and building electronic circuits, projects and gadgets. To participate you need to register. Registration is free. Click here to register now.

amplitude modulation??

Status
Not open for further replies.

cool

New Member
Dear all expects,

In AM, is it the carrier signal must be with the higher freq? and the lower freq must be the modulation signal??

I used a 555 timer to generate a square wave pulse to modulate an infrared signal. then, which is the carrier?? and which is the modulation signal??

Also, does this modulating signal contain the upper-side freq and lower-side freq?? and what is the envelope of it???

Please help help me!!! :cry:
 
cool said:
Dear all expects,

In AM, is it the carrier signal must be with the higher freq? and the lower freq must be the modulation signal??

Generally the carrier frequency is high, and the modulation frequency is low.

I used a 555 timer to generate a square wave pulse to modulate an infrared signal. then, which is the carrier?? and which is the modulation signal??

The IR is the carrier (at an extremely high frequency), the 555 generates the modulation.

Also, does this modulating signal contain the upper-side freq and lower-side freq?? and what is the envelope of it???

On a normal AM transmission, you get upper and lower sidebands. So for a 1,000KHz transmitter AM modulated by a 1KHz tone you would get three outputs - the carrier at 1,000KHz, the upper sideband at 1,001KHz, and the lower sideband at 999KHz. The complete information is contained in either one of the two sidebands, the carrier and other sideband are only wasting power - so SSB (Single Side Band) transmissions only transmit one sideband, putting all the transmitter power into that (which gives the much greater range).

However, your IR beam isn't modulated in the same way, it's simply pulsed on and off - so you will get 'carrier' then 'no carrier', more like morse code than AM. Morse code is commonly known as CW, for Carrier Wave.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Latest threads

New Articles From Microcontroller Tips

Back
Top