Search
Menu
Home
Sources
About
Contacts
Bipolar signal
In
telecommunication
, a
bipolar
signal
is a signal that may
assume
either of two
polarities
,
neither
of which is
zero
.
A bipolar signal may have a
two-state
non-return-to-zero
or a
three-state
return-to-zero
binary coding
scheme
.
A bipolar signal is usually
symmetrical
with respect to
zero
amplitude
,
i.e.,
the
absolute values
of the
positive and negative
signal
states
are
nominally
equal
.