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by cushychicken 1156 days ago
To quote a meme: “That’s the neat part. You don’t.” If you bandlimit your input, aliasing effectively strips out the carrier tone and leaves the modulated signal.

In a way, you’re relying on aliasing / frequency folding to do it for you.

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/3-s2.0-B97801241589310...

You can even improve information transfer in these scenarios by using a synchronizer, which allows you to phase shift your sampling to be at the ideal transition point in your information stream.