These plots show the demodulated signal for three values of transmitter-to-receiver phase difference. As the phase difference increases, the amplitude of the demodulated signal decreases. The demodulation procedure has become nonfunctional at 90° phase difference; this represents the worst-case scenario—i.e., the amplitude begins to increase again as the phase difference moves away (in either direction) from 90°.
One way to remedy this situation is through additional circuitry that synchronizes the phase of the receiver’s reference signal with the phase of the received signal. However, quadrature demodulation can be used to overcome the absence of synchronization between transmitter and receiver. As was just pointed out, the worst-case phase discrepancy is ±90°. Thus, if we perform multiplication with two reference signals separated by 90° of phase, the output from one multiplier compensates for the decreasing amplitude of the output from the other multiplier. In this scenario the worst-case phase difference is 45°, and you can see in the above plot that a 45° phase difference does not result in a catastrophic reduction in the amplitude of the demodulated signal.
The following plots demonstrate this I/Q compensation. The traces are demodulated signals from the I and Q branches of a quadrature demodulator.
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