AMRadio.java

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/*
    Synthia, a data structure generator
    Copyright (C) 2019-2021 Laboratoire d'informatique formelle
    Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
 
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package examples.oscilloscope;
 
import ca.uqac.lif.synthia.Picker;
import ca.uqac.lif.synthia.collection.ComposeList;
import ca.uqac.lif.synthia.signal.SineWave;
import ca.uqac.lif.synthia.util.Constant;
import ca.uqac.lif.synthia.util.Tick;
import ca.uqac.lif.synthia.vector.PrismPicker;
 
/**
 * Illustrates the principle of
 * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplitude_modulation">amplitude
 * modulation</a> using sine wave and prism pickers. In this example,
 * the signal to modulate and the carrier wave can be shown on the
 * {@link Oscilloscope} respectively as:
 * <p>
 * <img src="./doc-files/oscilloscope/Signal.png" alt="Signal" />
 * <img src="./doc-files/oscilloscope/AM_Carrier.png" alt="Carrier" />
 * <p>
 * The wiring diagram of pickers corresponding to amplitude modulation is
 * as follows:
 * <p>
 * <img src="./doc-files/oscilloscope/AMRadio.png" alt="Picker wiring diagram" />
 * <p>
 * When running the program, the resulting modulated signal is shown on
 * the oscilloscope:
 * <p>
 * <img src="./doc-files/oscilloscope/AM_Modulated.png" alt="Modulated signal" />
 * <p>
 * As one can see, the frequency of the signal does not change, but its
 * amplitude does; this corresponds to the varying height of each cycle of the
 * carrier.
 * 
 * @ingroup Examples
 */
public class AMRadio
{
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        // Generator for x-coordinate
        Picker<Number> x = new Tick(-1, 0.0001);
        // The signal to modulate
        SineWave signal = new SineWave(
                new Constant<Number>(1),
                new Tick(0, 0.00075),
                new Constant<Number>(0)
                );
        // Generator for y-coordinate
        SineWave y = new SineWave(
                signal, // amplitude 
                new Tick(0, 0.01), // frequency
                new Constant<Number>(0) // phase
                );
        // Create a list of 500 points out of x and y values
        PrismPicker points = new PrismPicker(x, y);
        ComposeList<float[]> set = new ComposeList<float[]>(points, 20000);
        // Display these points in our "oscilloscope"
        Oscilloscope o = new Oscilloscope().addPoints(set.pick());
        o.setVisible(true);
    }
}