Envelope detector

An envelope detector (sometimes called a peak detector) is an electronic circuit that takes a (relatively) high-frequency amplitude modulated signal as input and provides an output, which is the demodulated envelope of the original signal.

This article is about the analog electronics technique. For the digital signal processing technique, see Envelope estimator.
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