phase modulation
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modulation of the phase of the carrier wave
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Differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) Differential encoding main Differential phase shift keying (DPSK) is a common form of phase modulation that conveys data by changing the phase of the carrier wave.
The modulated waves are summed, and the final waveform is a combination of both phase-shift keying (PSK) and amplitude-shift keying (ASK), or, in the analog case, of phase modulation (PM) and amplitude modulation.
It can also be viewed as a change of the frequency of the carrier signal, and phase modulation can thus be considered a special case of FM in which the carrier frequency modulation is given by the time derivative of the phase modulation.
The main advantage of SOA is that all four types of nonlinear operations (cross gain modulation, cross phase modulation, wavelength conversion and four wave mixing ) can be conducted.
Digital FM synthesis (using the more frequency-stable phase modulation variant) was the basis of several commercial musical instruments beginning as early as 1977.
Since phase modulation is employed, higher order terms are also generated.