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Fft glossary – Teledyne LeCroy WaveRunner XI SERIES Operator’s Manual User Manual

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where

M

ref

= 0.316 V (that is, 0 dBm is defined as a sine wave of 0.316 V peak or 0.224 V rms, giving 1.0 mW

50 ohms).

into

The dBm Power Spectrum is the same as dBm Magnitude, as suggested in the above formula.

dBm Power Density:

wh

e equivalent noise bandwidth of t

ected window, and

Delta f is

the current frequen

The FFT Power Ave

mput

M

n

2

= R'

n

2

+ I'

n

2

,

nd

se

FFT Glossary

defines

uently used in FFT spectrum analysis and relates them to the oscilloscope.

e inpu

yquist fre

), there will be less than two samples per signal period.

ble from that of

e timebase and transform size should be selected so that the resulting Nyquist frequency is higher than the

highest significant component in the time

Coherent Ga

alized cohe

rre

ch win

ction

rectangula

ss than 1.0 for

n

y due

w functio

ss is compensate

e following table lists

he implemented win

.

ere

ENBW is th

he filter corresponding to the sel

cy resolution (bin width).

rage takes the complex frequency-domain data

R'

n

and

I'

n

for each spectrum generated in

es the square of the magnitude:

Step 5, and co

then sums

M

n

2 a

converted to the

counts the accumulated spectra. The total is normalized by the number of spectra and

lected result type using the same formulas as are used for the Fourier Transform.

This section

the terms freq

Aliasing If th
than the N

t signal to a sampling acquisition system contains components whose frequency is greater

quency (half the sampling frequency

The result is that the
components below

contribution of these components to the sampled waveform is indistinguisha

the Nyquist frequency. This is

aliasing.

Th

-domain record.

in The norm

r window and le

rent gain of a filter co

other windows. It defines the loss of sig

sponding to ea

dow fun

al energ

is 1.0 (0 dB) for a

to the

multiplication by the windo
the values for t

n. This lo

dows

d for in the oscilloscope. Th

Window Frequency Do

Parameter

main

s

Window Type

Highest Side Lobe

(dB)

Scallop Loss

(dB)

ENBW

(bins)

Coherent Gain

(dB)

Rectangular

-13 3.92

1.0

0.0

-32 1.42

1.5

-6.02

von Hann

Hamming

-43 1.78

1.37

-5.35

Flat Top

-44 0.01

2.96

-11.05

Blackman-Harris

-67 1.13

1.71

-7.53

ENBW Equivalent Noise BandWidth (ENBW) is the bandwidth of a rectangular filter (same gain at the center

a

N-point FFT is equivalent to passing the time-domain input signal through N/2 filters and

s N

as harmonic components of the input signal.

frequency), equivalent to a filter associated with each frequency bin, which would collect the same power from
white noise signal. In the table on the previous page, the ENBW is listed for each window function implemented,
given in bins.

Filters Computing an
plotting their outputs against the frequency. The spacing of filters is Delta f = 1/T, while the bandwidth depends on
the window function used (see Frequency Bins).

Frequency Bins The FFT algorithm takes a discrete source waveform, defined over N points, and compute
complex Fourier coefficients, which are interpreted