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Phase modulation (PM) is a modulation pattern for conditioning communication signals for transmission. It encodes a message signal as variations in the instantaneous phase of a carrier wave . Phase modulation is one of the two principal forms of angle modulation , together with frequency modulation .
Frequency modulation and phase modulation are the two complementary principal methods of angle modulation; phase modulation is often used as an intermediate step to achieve frequency modulation. These methods contrast with amplitude modulation, in which the amplitude of the carrier wave varies, while the frequency and phase remain constant.
Instantaneous phase vs time. The function has two true discontinuities of 180° at times 21 and 59, indicative of amplitude zero-crossings. The 360° "discontinuities" at times 19, 37, and 91 are artifacts of phase wrapping. Instantaneous phase of a frequency-modulated waveform: MSK (minimum shift keying).
Continuous phase modulation (CPM) is a method for modulation of data commonly used in wireless modems. In contrast to other coherent digital phase modulation techniques where the carrier phase abruptly resets to zero at the start of every symbol (e.g. M- PSK ), with CPM the carrier phase is modulated in a continuous manner.
In signal processing, phase noise is the frequency-domain representation of random fluctuations in the phase of a waveform, corresponding to time-domain deviations from perfect periodicity . Generally speaking, radio-frequency engineers speak of the phase noise of an oscillator , whereas digital-system engineers work with the jitter of a clock.
Chirp modulation, or linear frequency modulation for digital communication, was patented by Sidney Darlington in 1954 with significant later work performed by Winkler [who?] in 1962. This type of modulation employs sinusoidal waveforms whose instantaneous frequency increases or decreases linearly over time.
The phase modulation (φ(t), not shown) is a non-linearly increasing function from 0 to π /2 over the interval 0 < t < 16. The two amplitude-modulated components are known as the in-phase component (I, thin blue, decreasing) and the quadrature component (Q, thin red, increasing).
The distance resolution reachable with a linear frequency modulation of a pulse on a bandwidth is: where is the speed of the wave. Definition Ratio T T ′ = T Δ f {\textstyle {\frac {T}{T'}}=T\Delta f} is the pulse compression ratio.