Sampling - HW7

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Homework #7 - Sampling

Problem Statement
Figure out what happens if your sampled signal, $x(t)\!$, has frequency components only for ${\frac {f_{s}}{2}}<f<f_{s}\!$. Can you recover the original signal from it? If so, find the expression for $x(t)\!$ in terms of $x(nT)\!$.

Solution
For frequency components ${\frac {f_{s}}{2}}<f<f_{s}\!$, our sampled signal $x(t)\!$ in the frequency domain, or $X(f)\!$, is going to look like this.


After sampling with frequency $f_{s}\!$, the signal is going to be shifted over by ${\frac {1}{T}}\!$, since $f_{s}={\frac {1}{T}}\!$. It will look like this.


To recover the original signal $x(t)\!$, we need to a use bandpass filter to filter out the parts we don't want, as indicated by the red line in the figure below. (Note: not to scale.)


This leaves us with the original signal, as shown below.


The transfer function of the bandpass filter that will accomplish this for us is $H(f)={\begin{cases}T,&{\mbox{ }}-{\frac {1}{2T}}<|f|<{\frac {1}{T}}\\0,&{\mbox{ else }}\end{cases}}\!$

To find the expression for $h(t)\!$, or the expression for the bandpass filter in the time domain, we can take the inverse Fourier transform of $H(f)\!$.

$h(t)={\mathcal {F}}^{-1}[H(f)]=\int _{-{\frac {1}{T}}}^{-{\frac {1}{2T}}}Te^{j2\pi ft}df\ +\int _{\frac {1}{2T}}^{\frac {1}{T}}Te^{j2\pi ft}df={\frac {Te^{j2\pi ft}}{j2\pi t}}{\Bigg |}_{f=-{\frac {1}{T}}}^{-{\frac {1}{2T}}}+\ {\frac {Te^{j2\pi ft}}{j2\pi t}}{\Bigg |}_{f={\frac {1}{2T}}}^{\frac {1}{T}}\!$

$h(t)=T{\frac {e^{-j\pi t/T}-e^{-j2\pi t/T}}{j2(\pi t)}}\ +\ T{\frac {e^{j2\pi t/T}-e^{j\pi t/T}}{j2(\pi t)}}={\frac {T}{j2}}{\Bigg [}{\frac {e^{-j\pi t/T}-e^{-j2\pi t/T}+e^{j2\pi t/T}-e^{j\pi t/T}}{\pi t}}{\Bigg ]}\!$

$h(t)={\frac {T}{j2}}{\Bigg [}{\frac {-e^{j\pi t/T}+e^{-j\pi t/T}+e^{j2\pi t/T}-e^{-j2\pi t/T}}{\pi t}}{\Bigg ]}={\frac {T}{j2}}{\Bigg [}{\frac {e^{j2\pi t/T}-e^{-j2\pi t/T}}{\pi t}}{\Bigg ]}-\ {\frac {T}{j2}}{\Bigg [}{\frac {e^{j\pi t/T}-e^{-j\pi t/T}}{\pi t}}{\Bigg ]}\!$

Recall $sin(\theta )={\frac {1}{j2}}(e^{j\theta }-e^{-j\theta })\!$, so

$h(t)={\frac {T}{j2}}{\Bigg [}{\frac {e^{j2\pi t/T}-e^{-j2\pi t/T}}{\pi t}}{\Bigg ]}-\ {\frac {T}{j2}}{\Bigg [}{\frac {e^{j\pi t/T}-e^{-j\pi t/T}}{\pi t}}{\Bigg ]}={\frac {T}{\pi t}}sin{\Bigg (}{\frac {2\pi t}{T}}{\Bigg )}\ -\ {\frac {T}{\pi t}}sin{\Bigg (}{\frac {\pi t}{T}}{\Bigg )}={\frac {2sin{\Big (}{\frac {2\pi t}{T}}{\Big )}}{\frac {2\pi t}{T}}}\ -\ {\frac {sin{\Big (}{\frac {\pi t}{T}}{\Big )}}{\frac {\pi t}{T}}}\!$

Also recall $sinc(\theta )={\frac {sin(\pi \theta )}{\pi \theta }}\!$, so

$h(t)={\frac {2sin{\Big (}{\frac {2\pi t}{T}}{\Big )}}{\frac {2\pi t}{T}}}\ -\ {\frac {sin{\Big (}{\frac {\pi t}{T}}{\Big )}}{\frac {\pi t}{T}}}=2sinc{\Bigg (}{\frac {2t}{T}}{\Bigg )}-sinc{\Bigg (}{\frac {t}{T}}{\Bigg )}\!$

Now that we know $h(t)\!$, we can find $x(t)\!$ by convolving the function for $x(t)\!$ after sampling with $h(t)\!$.

$x(t)=\sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }x(nT)\delta (t-nT)*{\Bigg [}2sinc{\Bigg (}{\frac {2t}{T}}{\Bigg )}-sinc{\Bigg (}{\frac {t}{T}}{\Bigg )}{\Bigg ]}=\sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }x(nT){\Bigg [}2sinc{\Bigg (}{\frac {2(t-nT)}{T}}{\Bigg )}\ -\ sinc{\Bigg (}{\frac {t-nT}{T}}{\Bigg )}{\Bigg ]}\!$

Or, if you prefer, <math> x(t) = \sum_{n=-\infty}^\infty x(nT)\Bigg[\frac{2sin\Big(\frac{2\pi (t-nT)}{T}\Big)}{\frac{2\pi (t-nT)}{T}} \ - \ \frac{sin\Big(\frac{\pi (t-nT)}{T}\Big)}{\frac{\pi (t-nT)}{T}}\Bigg]