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What happens to an FM signal passed through a hard limiter and then a narrow filter?

  • A.The frequency modulation is converted to amplitude modulation
  • B.The deviation is halved along with the bandwidth
  • C.The signal is destroyed because limiting is nonlinear
  • D.The constant envelope is restored with the modulation intact

Answer: D

Limiting flattens amplitude and filtering removes the harmonics that flattening created, leaving a clean constant-envelope signal carrying the same modulation. That is exactly why nonlinear amplification is harmless to angle modulation and why class C stages can be cascaded. Conversion to amplitude modulation is what a slope detector does deliberately. Deviation is unchanged. And the signal survives precisely because the information is not in the amplitude.

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