QAM and VSB for digital transmission on hybrid fiber-coax

Kenneth J. Kerpez

doi:10.1117/12.227271

24 November 1995 QAM and VSB for digital transmission on hybrid fiber-coax

Kenneth J. Kerpez

Proceedings Volume 2609, Hybrid Fiber-Coax Systems; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.227271
Event: Photonics East '95, 1995, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract

This paper presents a comparison of the two most common modulation systems for downstream digital transmission on hybrid fiber/coax: quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), and vestigial sideband modulation (VSB). Both modulations use multiple signal levels to send multiple bits per Hertz with similar bandwidth efficiency. Detailed calculations of QAM and VSB performance on hybrid fiber/coax are reported here. It is shown that, since VSB has a higher symbol rate, it has at most one-half dB less received SNR than QAM because of dispersion and jitter. This difference is negligible. Proposals for VSB recover the carrier with a pilot tone and a PLL, and proposals for QAM use all-digital data-directed carrier recovery. Simulations reported here show that QAM and VSB have very similar carrier recovery performance. It is concluded that, for hybrid fiber/coax, the performance and inherent cost of QAM and VSB are very similar, although the two systems have many implementation differences and are incompatible.

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Kenneth J. Kerpez "QAM and VSB for digital transmission on hybrid fiber-coax", Proc. SPIE 2609, Hybrid Fiber-Coax Systems, (24 November 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.227271

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