428 CHAPTER 7: Sampling Theory
We found that forM= 20 πrad/sec 98.9% of the energy of the signal is included, and thus
it could be used to determine thatTs< π/M=0.05 sec/sample.
(b) For the causal exponential
x(t)=e−tu(t)
its Fourier transform is
X()=
1
1 +j
so that |X()|=
1
√
1 +^2
which does not go to zero for any finite, thenx(t)is not band limited. To find a frequency
Mso that 99% of the energy is in−M≤≤M, we let
1
2 π
∫M
−M
|X()|^2 d=
0.99
2 π
∫∞
−∞
|X()|^2 d
which gives
2 tan−^1 ()| 0 M= 2 ×0.99 tan−^1 ()|∞ 0 or M=tan
(
0.99π
2
)
=63.66
If we chooses= 2 π/Ts= 5 MorTs= 2 π/( 5 ×63.66)≈0.02, there will be hardly any
aliasing or loss of information. n
7.2.3 Reconstruction of the Original Continuous-Time Signal
If the signalx(t)to be sampled is band limited with Fourier transformX()and maximum frequency
max, by choosing the sampling frequencysto satisfy the Nyquist sampling rate condition, or
s> 2 max, the spectrum of the sampled signalxs(t)displays a superposition of shifted versions
of the spectrum ofx(t), multiplied by 1/Ts, but with no overlaps. In such a case, it is possible to
recover the original analog signal from the sampled signal by filtering. Indeed, if we consider an
ideal low-pass analog filterHlp(j)with magnitudeTsin the pass-band−s/ 2 < < s/2, and zero
elsewhere—that is,
Hlp(j)=
{
Ts −s/ 2 < < s/ 2
0 elsewhere
(7.14)
the Fourier transform of the output of the filter isXr()=Hlp(j)Xs()or
Xr()=
{
X() −s/ 2 < < s/ 2
0 elsewhere
which coincides with the Fourier transform of the original signalx(t). So that when sampling a band-
limited signal, using a sampling periodTsthat satisfies the Nyquist sampling rate, the signal can be
recovered exactly from the sampled signal by means of an ideal low-pass filter.