Envelope detection and correction of SSB

Envelope detection is significantly less complex to implement and use than coherent detection if applied to SSB results in gross distortion unless the carrier component is very large. A method of correcting this distortion is discussed and a variant which achieves partial correction with some hardware simplification is investigated. Computer simulation shows that a reduction of 15 dB in second-harmonic distortion can be achieved, and this is confirmed by tests on a prototype system.