`scipy.fft._basic:irfft`

source: build-install/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/scipy/fft/_basic.py:373

Signature

def irfft(x, n = None, axis = -1, norm = None, overwrite_x = False, workers = None, *, plan = None)

Summary

Computes the inverse of rfft.

Extended Summary

This function computes the inverse of the 1-D n-point discrete Fourier Transform of real input computed by rfft. In other words, irfft(rfft(x), len(x)) == x to within numerical accuracy. (See Notes below for why len(a) is necessary here.)

The input is expected to be in the form returned by rfft, i.e., the real zero-frequency term followed by the complex positive frequency terms in order of increasing frequency. Since the discrete Fourier Transform of real input is Hermitian-symmetric, the negative frequency terms are taken to be the complex conjugates of the corresponding positive frequency terms.

Parameters

x : array_like: The input array.
n : int, optional: Length of the transformed axis of the output. For n output points, n//2+1 input points are necessary. If the input is longer than this, it is cropped. If it is shorter than this, it is padded with zeros. If n is not given, it is taken to be 2*(m-1), where m is the length of the input along the axis specified by axis.
axis : int, optional: Axis over which to compute the inverse FFT. If not given, the last axis is used.
norm : {"backward", "ortho", "forward"}, optional: Normalization mode (see fft). Default is "backward".
overwrite_x : bool, optional: If True, the contents of x can be destroyed; the default is False. See fft for more details.
workers : int, optional: Maximum number of workers to use for parallel computation. If negative, the value wraps around from os.cpu_count(). See fft for more details.
plan : object, optional: This argument is reserved for passing in a precomputed plan provided by downstream FFT vendors. It is currently not used in SciPy.
versionadded 1.5.0

Returns

out : ndarray: The truncated or zero-padded input, transformed along the axis indicated by axis, or the last one if axis is not specified. The length of the transformed axis is n, or, if n is not given, 2*(m-1) where m is the length of the transformed axis of the input. To get an odd number of output points, n must be specified.

Raises

: IndexError: If axis is larger than the last axis of x.

Notes

Returns the real valued n-point inverse discrete Fourier transform of x, where x contains the non-negative frequency terms of a Hermitian-symmetric sequence. n is the length of the result, not the input.

If you specify an n such that a must be zero-padded or truncated, the extra/removed values will be added/removed at high frequencies. One can thus resample a series to m points via Fourier interpolation by: a_resamp = irfft(rfft(a), m).

The default value of n assumes an even output length. By the Hermitian symmetry, the last imaginary component must be 0 and so is ignored. To avoid losing information, the correct length of the real input must be given.

Examples

import scipy.fft

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scipy.fft.ifft([1, -1j, -1, 1j])
scipy.fft.irfft([1, -1j, -1])

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array([0., 1., 0., 0.])

Notice how the last term in the input to the ordinary `ifft` is the complex conjugate of the second term, and the output has zero imaginary part everywhere. When calling `irfft`, the negative frequencies are not specified, and the output array is purely real.

Aliases

scipy.fft.irfft