Old Example 3 from Section 25
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A short note dated 3.28.13 in which Phil removes Example 3 from Section 25 of his spectral theory document, saying it adds little and contains an error, and keeps it for possible later use. The example derives the Fourier integral spectrum of an infinite box-pulse train as delta-function lines weighted by a sinc envelope, including a DC term. It then cross-checks the result against the Section 17 Fourier series treatment.
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Old Example 3 from Section 25 PhL 3.28.13
I think this example adds little to my document and includes a bad error and just wastes pages anyway, so lets cut it and paste it here for safekeeping in case I want to bring it back to life.
Example 3: An infinite pulse train
Consider this infinite sequence of yn samples, where we use T2 in place of the usual T1 ,
We can regard the red outline curve as an amplitude modulated pulse train whose pulse shape is a box of height A = 1 and width τ = T2. The Fourier Integral Transform spectrum of this box from (9.2) is
Xpulse(ω) = T2 sinc(ωT2/2) = T2 sinc(π ) ω2 = 2π/T2 (9.2)
From (25.4) the Fourier Integral Transform spectrum X(ω) of the pulse train is given by
X(ω) = (1/T2) Xpulse(ω) Y'ω) (25.4)
where from (23.5),
Y'ω) = T2!Syntax Error, Iyn e-iωnT = T2!Syntax Error, I e-inωT
Using n = 2s, the sum on the right may be written Σs=-∞∞ e-i2sωT . Then replace s with n to get,
Y'ω) = T2!Syntax Error, I e-in2ωT // probably wrong since we now really have N/2 limits
According to (13.2),
!Syntax Error, Ie±ink = !Syntax Error, I2πδ(k - 2πm) -∞ < k < ∞ (13.2)
Setting k = 2ωT2 we can write , using ω2 ≡ 2π/T2,
2πδ(k - 2πm) = 2πδ(2ωT2 - 2πm) = ω2δ(2ω - mω2) = (ω2/2)δ(ω - mω2/2)
so then (13.2) with k = 2ωT2 says
!Syntax Error, Ie-in2ωT = (ω2/2)!Syntax Error, I δ(ω - mω2/2)
and then
Y'(ω) = T2(ω2/2)!Syntax Error, I δ(ω - mω2/2) = π!Syntax Error, I δ(ω - mω2/2) (25.10)
The Fourier Integral Spectrum of the pulse train from (25.4) is then
X(ω) = (1/T2) [Xpulse(ω)] { Y'(ω) }
= (1/T2) [T2 sinc(π ) ] { π!Syntax Error, I δ(ω - mω2/2) }
= π sinc(π ) !Syntax Error, I δ(ω - mω2/2) = π !Syntax Error, I sinc(m ) δ(ω - mω2/2)
= πδ(ω) + π!Syntax Error, I sinc(m )δ(ω - mω2/2)
= (1/2) 2πδ(ω) +!Syntax Error, I sinc(m ) 2πδ(ω - mω2/2) (25.11)
where we reflect the negative values to the positive side. The first term arises from the DC component of the waveform which is just (1/2), as (8.1) confirms.
We can regard the delta function lines at ω = mω2/2 shown in (25.11) as the image spectra of Y'(ω), and as usual they go out to infinity in both directions. These image spectra lines then propagate into X(ω) though they get tamped down by the sinc function at large ω (the even lines for m≠ 0 are completely removed by the sinc).
Comment: The energy associated with just a single one of these many delta lines is infinite (as shown in Appendix A (f)) so a frequency domain assessment of the pulse train energy is infinite. This is in agreement with the time domain assessment which is also infinite because there are an infinite number of pulses each of which carries a finite amount of energy.
We already examined this same pulse train from a different point of view in Section 17. There, we regarded it as simple pulse train of repeated pulses as shown in Fig ***
where τ = T2 = T1/2, which means ω2/2 = ω1. The spectrum we found in Section 17 was this
X(ω) =!Syntax Error, Ic(ω) 2πδω - mω1 ) = !Syntax Error, Icm 2πδω - mω1 ) (14.11) (17.4)
cm = (1/T1) Xpulse(mω1) = (1 T2/T1) sinc(mπT2/T1) (14.7) and (14.2) (17.5)
= (1/2) sinc(mπ/2)
which says
X(ω) = !Syntax Error, Icm 2πδω - mω1 ) = !Syntax Error, I (1/2) sinc(mπ/2) 2πδω - mω1 )
= (1/2) 2πδω) + !Syntax Error, I sinc(mπ/2) 2πδω - mω2/2 )
and this agrees with our result (25.11) since the even-m terms vanish.
If we add a DC offset (-1/2) to our first Figure above, we then get
and the corresponding spectrum is (25.11) with the DC term eliminated,
X(ω) = !Syntax Error, I sinc(m ) 2πδ(ω - mω2/2) = !Syntax Error, I sinc(m ) 2πδ(ω - mω1) (25.12)