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Arctangent Spectrum

Since the series expansion of the arctangent nonlinearity is

$\displaystyle \arctan(x) = x - \frac{x^3}{3} + \frac{x^5}{5} - \frac{x^7}{7} + \cdots $

bandwidth expansion is infinite (in continuous time). Thus, we expect problems with aliasing.

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