Application of the non-uniform Fourier transform to non-uniformly sampled Fourier transform spectrometers

Resampling by interpolation is the traditional method to process interferograms from non-uniformly sampled Fourier transform spectrometers. The non-uniform fast (NUFFT) an alternative approach that has been mostly overlooked. With aid of experiments on a high-resolution interferometer with variety optical sources, these two methods are compared. It found NUFFT comparable in spectral profile shape and noise levels better amplitude computer performance. A significant advantage also case under-sampling performance due unique non-periodic nature sampling. In addition, novel implementation presented analysed.