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Frequency Division Multiplexing Explained

Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) is a technique that combines multiple independent signals into a single composite signal for transmission over a common channel by separating them in frequency. The process involves using low-pass filters, modulators, and band-pass filters to ensure that signals do not interfere with each other, allowing for their extraction at the receiving end. FDM is commonly utilized for transmitting analog voice signals, typically assigning a bandwidth of 4 kHz to each voice input.

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Frequency Division Multiplexing Explained

Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) is a technique that combines multiple independent signals into a single composite signal for transmission over a common channel by separating them in frequency. The process involves using low-pass filters, modulators, and band-pass filters to ensure that signals do not interfere with each other, allowing for their extraction at the receiving end. FDM is commonly utilized for transmitting analog voice signals, typically assigning a bandwidth of 4 kHz to each voice input.

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FDM

M u l tipl e xin g

Multiplexing, is a process of combining a number of independent


signals into a composite signal suitable for transmission over a
common channel.

Ex: Telephone voice frequencies transmitted range from 300 to


3100 Hz.

To transmit 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 extracted at the receiving end.

Courtesy: Communication systems (Simon Haykin)


FDM & TDM & WDM

This is accomplished by separating the signals either in frequency


or time or wavelength.

The technique of separating the signals in frequency is referred to as


frequency division multiplexing (FDM).

The technique of separating the signals in time is called time


division multiplexing (TDM).

The technique of separating the signals in wavelength is called


wavelength division multiplexing (WDM).
Courtesy: Communication systems (Simon Haykin)
Courtesy: Communication systems (Simon Haykin) Bl o ck d i a g r a m of F D M
F D M operation

A low-pass filter, is designed to remove high-frequency components that are capable of


disturbing other message signals that share the common channel.

The filtered signals are applied to modulators that shift the frequency ranges of the
signals so as to occupy mutually exclusive frequency intervals.

The necessary carrier frequencies needed to perform these frequency translations are
obained from a carrier supply.

For the modulation, we may use any one of the methods according to the requirement.

If the information source is analog voice, then a common method of modulation used with
frequency-division multiplexing is SSB modulation. In this case, each voice input is
usually assigned a bandwidth of 4 kHz.

Courtesy: Communication systems (Simon Haykin)


F D M operation

The band-pass filters following the modulators are used to restrict the band of each
modulated wave to its prescribed range.

The resulting band-pass filter outputs are next combined in parallel to form the input to
the common channel.

At the receiving terminal, a bank of band-pass filters, with their inputs connected in
parallel, is used to separate the message signals on a frequency-occupancy basis.

Finally, the original message signals are recovered by individual demodulators.

Courtesy: Communication systems (Simon Haykin)

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