Linear canonical transforms play an important role in many fields of optics and signal processing. Well-known transforms such as the Fourier transform, the fractional Fourier transform, and the Fresnel transform can be seen as special cases of the linear canonical transform. In this paper we develop a sampling theorem for linear canonical transformed signals. The well-known Shannon sampling the...

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in finding fast algorithms to compute accurately the linear canonical transform (LCT) of a given function. This is driven by the large number of applications of the LCT in optics and signal processing. The well-known integral transforms: Fourier, fractional Fourier, bilateral Laplace and Fresnel transforms are special cases of the LCT. In this p...

The class of second-order curvilinear gratings consists of all the curvilinear gratings that are obtained by second-order spatial transformations of periodic gratings. It includes, for example, circular, elliptic, and hyperbolic gratings as well as circular, elliptic, and hyperbolic zone plates. Such structures occur quite frequently in optics, and their Fourier transforms may arise, for instan...

The linear canonical transform(LCT) has become a very active area in signal processing community in recent years, with many applications in optics, radar system analysis, filter design, phase retrieval, pattern recognition, etc. Many well-known transforms such as the Fourier transform,the fractional Fourier transform,and the Fresnel transform can be seen as special cases of the linear canonical...

We present a fast NlogN time algorithm for computing quadratic-phase integrals. This three-parameter class of integrals models propagation in free space in the Fresnel approximation, passage through thin lenses, and propagation in quadratic graded-index media as well as any combination of any number of these and is therefore of importance in optics. By carefully managing the sampling rate, one ...

An additional degree of freedom is introduced to fractional-Fourier-transform systems by use of anamorphic optics. A different fractional Fourier order along the orthogonal principal directions is performed. Alaboratory experimental system shows preliminary results that demonstrate the proposed theory. Applications such as anamorphic fractional correlation and multiplexing in fractional domains...

Various transforms are employed for signal processing to obtain useful information, which is not explicitly available when the signal is in the time domain. Most of the real time signals such as speech, biomedical signals, etc., are non-stationary signals. The Fourier transform (FT), used for most of the signal processing applications, determines the frequency components present in the signal b...

In this survey paper we introduce the reader to the notion of the fractional Fourier transform, which may be considered as a fractional power of the classical Fourier transform. It has been intensely studied during the last decade, an attention it may have partially gained because of the vivid interest in timefrequency analysis methods of signal processing, like wavelets. Like the complex expon...