Dictionary of Electrical Engineering

Commonly used terms in the Electrical industry.

pilot carrier
a means of providing a carrier at the receiver, which matches the received carrier in phase and frequency. In this method, which is employed in suppressed carrier modulation systems, a carrier of very small amplitude is inserted into the modulated signal prior to transmission, extracted and amplified in the receiver, and then employed as a matching carrier for coherent detection.
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