Hi all, I was hoping someone could shed some light on this problem Im having. Ill be as clear as possible. Im using the Java JNI wrapper for FFTW. The problem I am having is regarding the imaginary components being returned from a real to complex tranform. As I understand it, the format of the array returned by the FFTW real to complex transform is (for an even N length signal); [dc][r1][r2][r3][r4][ny][i4][i3][i2][i1] where dc = direct component ny = nyquist and (rx, ix) are the various imaginary numbers If I input a pure cosine wave of fHz, I would assume that all the [ix] elements of the array would be zero or close enough. However I'm getting some non-trivial values in the imaginary parts of the array. I'm at a total loss as to why this is. Are any of my assumptions incorrect or has anyone had similar experiences? Thanks in advance! Sean
Imaginary values non-null in FFTW Java wrapper real transform
Started by ●May 16, 2006
Reply by ●May 16, 20062006-05-16
SeanOg wrote:> Hi all, > > I was hoping someone could shed some light on this problem Im having. Ill > be as clear as possible. > > Im using the Java JNI wrapper for FFTW. The problem I am having is > regarding the imaginary components being returned from a real to complex > tranform. > > As I understand it, the format of the array returned by the FFTW real to > complex transform is (for an even N length signal); > > [dc][r1][r2][r3][r4][ny][i4][i3][i2][i1] > > where > dc = direct component > ny = nyquist > and > (rx, ix) are the various imaginary numbers > > If I input a pure cosine wave of fHz, I would assume that all the [ix] > elements of the array would be zero or close enough. However I'm getting > some non-trivial values in the imaginary parts of the array. > > I'm at a total loss as to why this is. Are any of my assumptions incorrect > or has anyone had similar experiences? > > Thanks in advance! > > SeanAn FFT of a totally real input signal will, in general, return results with nonzero real and imaginary parts. If the input signal has even symmetry around 0 then the FFT should be all real, if it has odd symmetry around 0 then the FFT should be all imaginary. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com Posting from Google? See http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/ "Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" came out in April. See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html