Explain the concept of frequency interleaving

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Frequency interleaving in television transmission is possible because of the relationship of the video signal to the scanning frequencies which are used to develop it.
It has been determined that the energy content of the video signal is contained in individual energy ‘bundles’ which occur at harmonics of the line frequency (15.625, 31.250 ... KHz) the components of each bundle being separated by a multiplier of the field frequency (50, 100, ... Hz).
The shape of each energy bundle shows a peak at the exact harmonics of the horizontal scanning frequency. As shown in diagram, the lower amplitude excursions that occur on either side of the peaks are spaced at 50 Hz intervals and represent harmonics of the vertical scanning rate.
The vertical sidebands contain less energy than the horizontal because of the lower rate of vertical scanning. Note that the energy content progressively decreases with increase in the order of harmonics and is very small beyond 3.5 MHz from the picture carrier.

Composition of video information at multiples of line frequency

Therefore, a part of the bandwidth in the monochrome television signal goes unused because of spacing between the bundles. This suggests that the available space could be occupied by another signal.
It is here where the colour information is located by modulating the colour difference signals with a carrier frequency called ‘colour subcarrier’. The carrier frequency is so chosen that its sideband frequencies fall exactly mid-way between the harmonics of the line frequency.
This requires that the frequency of the subcarrier must be an odd multiple of half the line frequency.
The resultant energy clusters that contain colour information are shown in Figure by dotted chain lines along with the Y signal energy bands.
In order to avoid crosstalk with the picture signal, the frequency of the subcarrier is chosen rather on the high side of the channel bandwidth. It is 567 times one-half the line frequency in the PAL system.

Interleaving of the colour signal

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