antenna arrays. Unlike most windows, the Dolph-Chebyshev is defined in terms of its frequency response: .. math:: W(k) = \frac {\cos\{M \cos^{-1}[\beta \cos(\frac{\pi k}{M})]\}} {\cosh[M \cosh^{-1}(\beta)]} where .. math:: \beta = \cosh \left [\frac{1}{M} \cosh^{-1}(10^\frac{A}{20}) \right ] and 0 <= abs(k) <= M-1. A is the attenuation in decibels (`at`). The time domain window is then generated using the IFFT, so power-of-two `M` are the fastest to generate, and prime number `M` are the slowest. The equiripple condition in the frequency domain creates impulses in the time domain, which appear at the ends of the window. References ---------- .. [1] C. Dolph, "A current distribution for broadside arrays which optimizes the relationship between beam width and side-lobe level", Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 34, Issue 6 .. [2] Peter Lynch, "The Dolph-Chebyshev Window: A Simple Optimal Filter", American Meteorological Society (April 1997) http://mathsci.ucd.ie/~plynch/Publications/Dolph.pdf .. [3] F. J. Harris, "On the use of windows for harmonic analysis with the discrete Fourier transforms", Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 1978 Examples -------- Plot the window and its frequency response: >>> import numpy as np >>> from scipy import signal >>> from scipy.fft import fft, fftshift >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >>> window = signal.windows.chebwin(51, at=100) >>> plt.plot(window) >>> plt.title("Dolph-Chebyshev window (100 dB)") >>> plt.ylabel("Amplitude") >>> plt.xlabel("Sample") >>> plt.figure() >>> A = fft(window, 2048) / (len(window)/2.0) >>> freq = np.linspace(-0.5, 0.5, len(A)) >>> response = 20 * np.log10(np.abs(fftshift(A / abs(A).max()))) >>> plt.plot(freq, response) >>> plt.axis([-0.5, 0.5, -120, 0]) >>> plt.title("Frequency response of the Dolph-Chebyshev window (100 dB)") >>> plt.ylabel("Normalized magnitude [dB]") >>> plt.xlabel("Normalized frequency [cycles per sample]") é-