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Particle Detectors: (4.8) Envelope Detector: (1) Definition of The Envelope: Any AM or FM signal can be written in the following form: . In the case of AM, (t) (the phase component of the signal) is constant and can be ignored. In AM, the carrier frequency is also constant. Thus, all the information in the AM signal is in R (t). R (t) is called the envelope of the signal. Hence an AM signal is given by the equation: , with m (t) representing the original audio frequency message, C the carrier amplitude and R (t) equal to C + m (t). So, if the envelope of the AM signal can be extracted, the original message can be recovered. In the case of FM, the transmitted signal has a constant envelope R (t) = R and can be ignored. However, many FM receivers measure the envelope anyway for received signal strength indication
