Phase displacement modulator having four quadrant phases
OwnerRoland Bailly, Daniel Duponteilinventors
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A four stage phase displacement modulator has a numerical signal generator with four outputs, which respectively deliver four signals, each signal having a frequency which is equal to the carrier frequency. The respective phases of the four stages are 0, .pi./2, .pi., and 3 .pi./2, which respectively appear at four inputs of a encoding device. In addition, the encoding device has two governing inputs which respectively receive two successions of impulses which constitute the modulating signal. The output of the encoding device is connected to the input of a band-pass filter, the output of which delivers the four phase modulated signal. The encoding device has a validation input to which is coupled the output of a monostable flip-flop driven by a clock signal at the rhythm of pairs of binary bits applied to the encoding device. Variable capacitors adjust the dephasings between the delivered signals.
A phase displacement modulator using four phases, said modulator comprising carrier signal source means having a predetermined carrier frequency, numerical signal generator means having four outputs which respectively deliver four signals each having the carrier frequency, means coupled to the four outputs of said generator means for adjusting a dephasing between the signals appearing thereat, the respective phases of said four outputs being 0, .pi./2, .pi., and 3.pi./2, encoder means having four inputs which are respectively connected to the four outputs of said numerical signal generator means, said encoder means having two governing inputs, means for respectively applying a modulating signal to the two governing inputs, said modulating signals being two successions of impulses, band pass filter means, said encoder means having four outputs which are connected to the input of said band pass filter means having an output which delivers a four state phase displacement modulated signal, and monostable multivibrator means driven responsive to a clock pulse stream having the same frequency as the binary modulating signal, said encoder means having a validation input which is connected to the output of said monostable multivibrator, the monostable multivibrator means having its output activated only during a fraction of the clock signal period.
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