GATE EE 2016 Set 2 — Question 38
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Let and be two signals whose Fourier Transforms are as shown in the figure below. In the figure, denotes the impulse response.
For the system shown above, the minimum sampling rate required to sample , so that can be uniquely reconstructed from its samples, is

Correct answer
(B) 2(B₁+B₂)
Solution
1.The multiplier output is , so in the frequency domain .
2. is zero for and is zero for , so their convolution is zero for : is band-limited to .
3.The output is , i.e. with .
4. is not band-limited, but it is nonzero everywhere, so multiplying by it neither removes nor adds frequency content: still extends exactly to .
5.The highest frequency in is therefore (in the units of the frequency axis of the figure).
6.The minimum (Nyquist) sampling rate is twice the highest frequency:
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