amplitude modulation

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amplitude modulation

Altering the height (amplitude) of an electrical or acoustical wave.

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Figure 5 shows the measured constellation of the balanced biphase amplitude modulator at 30 GHz for bias points between +1 and -2 V.

Miniaturized low cost 30 GHz monolithic balanced BPSK and vector modulators

Sources of error requiring amplitude-response variation in the device include detector delay variation with power level, incidental phase modulation in the amplitude modulator and RF source phase noise.

Group delay characterization of frequency converters

A 360 [degrees] phase shifted and amplitude modulator that can be trimmed easily to a superior accuracy with a procedure requiring amplitude measurements have been presented.

RF mixers and modulators made with a monolithic four-quadrant multiplier

The Digital Cable Modulator is a dual mode 16 or 64 Quadrature Amplitude Modulator that accepts an MPEG-2 digital signal, containing up to 10 digital programs, and converts it to a 6 MHz channel.

CABLEVISION SYSTEMS TO OFFER INTERACTIVE VIDEO SERVICES USING AT&T NETWORK SYSTEMS END-TO-END DIGITAL VIDEO SYSTEM

Called the Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP), this new device integrates the functions of broadcast and narrowcast quadrature amplitude modulators (QAMs), as well as DOCSIS([R]) 3.