Stochastic Resonance as a null distortion demodulation

Author

Pinto, Fco Rogelio Palomo ; Reboul, Jose M Quero ; Vega-Leal, Alfredo Perez ; Tombs, Jon

Author_Institution

Electron. Eng. Dept., Sevilla Univ., Sevilla

fYear

2008

fDate

12-15 May 2008

Firstpage

2120

Lastpage

2125

Abstract

We present an analogy between FM modulation and stochastic resonance and a stochastic resonance (SR) condition from that analysis. The SR is possible when there is no signal harmonic distortion at the FM demodulator output. The non-THD condition is experimentally demonstrated with an ad-hoc test bench and an algorithm, implemented as a virtual instrument, for SR tuning is also shown. A THD characterization of stochastic resonance let to use digital filtering for tuning the optimal noise level.

Keywords

demodulation; digital filters; harmonic distortion; FM demodulator; FM modulation; SR tuning; ad-hoc test bench; digital filtering; nonTHD condition; null distortion demodulation; optimal noise level; signal harmonic distortion; stochastic resonance; Demodulation; Instruments; Integrated circuit noise; Noise figure; Noise generators; Noise level; Operational amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio; Stochastic resonance; Strontium; FM modulation; Stochastic Resonance; Tuning; Virtual Instrument;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings, 2008. IMTC 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1540-3

Electronic_ISBN

1091-5281

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2008.4547398

Filename

4547398