The Wigner Distribution Function of Two-dimensional Signals Coherent-optical Generation and Display

3 December 1983

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Optica Acta: International Journal of Optics

Vol. 30 (12), 1789-1803
https://doi.org/10.1080/713821117

Abstract

We introduce the Wigner distribution function (WDF) as a self-windowed complex spectrogram and suggest some methods for the optical generation of the WDF of two-dimensional signals. The resulting WDFs, since they are four-dimensional functions, are represented as sectional images displayed either in parallel or as temporal sequences. We give some experimental results for real-valued input signals obtained from different coherent-optical WDF processors.

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