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- What causes spectral leakage in FFT?
- What causes spectral leakage?
- How do you reduce spectral leakage?
- What is leakage in spectral analysis?
What causes spectral leakage in FFT?
Spectral leakage due to FFT is caused by: mismatch between desired tone and chosen frequency resolution, time limiting an observation. Understand the concept using hands-on examples.
What causes spectral leakage?
Spectral leakage results from an assumption in the fast Fourier transform (FFT) and discrete Fourier transform (DFT) algorithms that the time record exactly repeats throughout all time. Thus, signals in a time record are periodic at intervals that correspond to the length of the time record.
How do you reduce spectral leakage?
We have seen that spectral leakage is reduced by tapering the digital signal by a window function before the DFT takes place. A generalization of this technique is the short-time discrete Fourier transform (STDFT).
What is leakage in spectral analysis?
Leakage, more explicitly called spectral leakage, is a smearing of power across a frequency spectrum that occurs when the signal being measured is not periodic in the sample interval.
