Carrier Phase Error in Single Sideband-Partial Response Systems

This paper studies the effect of a demodulator carrier phase error on the performance of a synchronous data transmission system. Various single sideband-partial response systems are ranked on the basis of their sensitivity to the phase error. Mean-square distortion due to the phase error and the vertical eye opening of the resulting eye patterns are used as performance measures of comparison. The influence of system bandwidth on the system performance is also studied.