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Spectrum analyzer


A spectrum analyzer is a device used to examine at the spectral composition of some electrical, aural or optical waveform.

Often, it measures the power spectrum.

There are analogue and digital spectrum analyzers:

  • An analogue spectrum analyzer uses basically a variable bandpass filter which mid-frequency is automatically tuned (shifted, swept) through the range of frequencies of which the spectrum is to be measured.
  • A digital spectrum analyzer uses fast Fourier transform (FFT), a mathematical processes transforms a waveform into its compositions of frequencies in the spectrum. As a result, computer programs can compute such transforms, and makes audio processing easier. FFTs have applications in much wider fields.

See also

electromagnetic spectrum, spectrum, spectrogram


Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45