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Quadrature modulation is the general technique of modulating two carriers. Examples include Quadrature amplitude modulation, Phase-shift keying, and Minimum-shift keying. Constellation diagrams are used to examine the modulation in the 2-D signal space. == Explanation == Sending a signal by amplitude modulation consists of sending the function : where is the signal to encode and is the carrier wave, is the carrier frequency – one is changing the amplitude of a carrier wave to encode the signal, hence amplitude modulation. In general one could also change the phase of the carrier to encode the signal, as in: : this 90° (the angle of a rectangle, or a 1/4 turn) is why it is called "quadrature" modulation, and the symbols and indicate the "in-phase" signal and "quadrature" signal. In terms of Euler's formula, amplitude modulation encodes a 1-dimensional ''real'' signal, while quadrature modulation encodes a 2-dimensional ''complex'' signal. This viewpoint, that a wave of a given frequency can encode 2 dimensions of data, is elaborated in Fourier analysis, and is the principle that quadrature modulation exploits. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「quadrature modulation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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