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For a given sampling rate (samples per second), the Nyquist frequency (cycles per second) is the frequency whose cycle-length (or period) is twice the interval between samples, thus 0.5 cycle/sample. For example, audio CDs have a sampling rate of 44100 samples/second. At 0.5 cycle/sample, the corresponding Nyquist frequency is 22050 cycles/second .
Fig 1: Typical example of Nyquist frequency and rate. They are rarely equal, because that would require over-sampling by a factor of 2 (i.e. 4 times the bandwidth). In signal processing , the Nyquist rate , named after Harry Nyquist , is a value equal to twice the highest frequency ( bandwidth ) of a given function or signal.
When a bandpass signal is sampled slower than its Nyquist rate, the samples are indistinguishable from samples of a low-frequency alias of the high-frequency signal. That is often done purposefully in such a way that the lowest-frequency alias satisfies the Nyquist criterion, because the bandpass signal is still uniquely represented and ...
The sample rate must exceed the Nyquist rate for the samples to suffice to represent (). The threshold / is called the Nyquist frequency and is an attribute of the sampling equipment. All meaningful frequency components of the properly sampled () exist below the Nyquist frequency.
The sampling theorem states that sampling frequency would have to be greater than 200 Hz. Sampling at four times that rate requires a sampling frequency of 800 Hz. This gives the anti-aliasing filter a transition band of 300 Hz ((f s /2) − B = (800 Hz/2) − 100 Hz = 300 Hz) instead of 0 Hz if the sampling frequency was 200 Hz. Achieving an ...
Decimators can be used to reduce the sampling frequency, whereas interpolators can be used to increase it. Milic, Ljiljana (2009). Multirate Filtering for Digital Signal Processing. New York: Hershey. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-60566-178-0. Sampling rate conversion systems are used to change the sampling rate of a signal.
A lower value of n will also lead to a useful sampling rate. For example, using n = 4, the FM band spectrum fits easily between 1.5 and 2.0 times the sampling rate, for a sampling rate near 56 MHz (multiples of the Nyquist frequency being 28, 56, 84, 112, etc.). See the illustrations at the right.
The Nyquist frequency will also change when the PRF is changed. This is explained best using an example with 2 different PRF, although real systems use a different method. In the example, PRF A can detect true speed up to 600MPH and PRF B can detect true speed up to 500MPH.