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bundles / scipy latest / scipy / fft / _helper / fftfreq

function

scipy.fft._helper:fftfreq

source: /scipy/fft/_helper.py :149

Signature

def   fftfreq ( n d = 1.0 * xp = None device = None )

Summary

Return the Discrete Fourier Transform sample frequencies.

Extended Summary

The returned float array f contains the frequency bin centers in cycles per unit of the sample spacing (with zero at the start). For instance, if the sample spacing is in seconds, then the frequency unit is cycles/second.

Given a window length n and a sample spacing d:

f = [0, 1, ...,   n/2-1,     -n/2, ..., -1] / (d*n)   if n is even
f = [0, 1, ..., (n-1)/2, -(n-1)/2, ..., -1] / (d*n)   if n is odd

Parameters

n : int

Window length.

d : scalar, optional

Sample spacing (inverse of the sampling rate). Defaults to 1.

xp : array_namespace, optional

The namespace for the return array. Default is None, where NumPy is used.

device : device, optional

The device for the return array. Only valid when xp.fft.fftfreq implements the device parameter.

Returns

f : ndarray

Array of length n containing the sample frequencies.

Notes

Array API Standard Support

fftfreq has experimental support for Python Array API Standard compatible backends in addition to NumPy. Please consider testing these features by setting an environment variable SCIPY_ARRAY_API=1 and providing CuPy, PyTorch, JAX, or Dask arrays as array arguments. The following combinations of backend and device (or other capability) are supported.

====================  ====================  ====================
Library               CPU                   GPU
====================  ====================  ====================
NumPy                 ✅                     n/a                 
CuPy                  n/a                   ✅                   
PyTorch               ✅                     ✅                   
JAX                   ✅                     ✅                   
Dask                  ✅                     n/a                 
====================  ====================  ====================

See dev-arrayapi for more information.

Examples

import numpy as np
import scipy.fft
signal = np.array([-2, 8, 6, 4, 1, 0, 3, 5], dtype=float)
fourier = scipy.fft.fft(signal)
n = signal.size
timestep = 0.1
freq = scipy.fft.fftfreq(n, d=timestep)
freq

Aliases

  • scipy.fft.fftfreq

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