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Quadrature amplitude modulation

Family of digital modulation methods

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Source revisionSep 10, 2026
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Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) is the name of a family of signal modulation methods widely used in modern telecommunications to transmit information. At its core, it conveys two independent analog signals by changing (modulating) the amplitudes of two differently phased versions of a single carrier wave using amplitude modulation. These paired analog signal channels may then be used either directly or to encode digital bit streams using joint amplitude-shift keying across the synchronized channels.

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