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Summary to Lesson 4.5

We have started this lesson with a lter classi cation based on characteristics of lters in
the frequency domain. Hence, we distinguish lowpass (resp. highpass) lters, i.e., lters
that let low (resp. high) frequencies go through and kill high (resp. low) frequencies. A
bandpass lter is a lter that lets a certain range of frequency go through and a allpass
lter one with constant magnitude over all frequencies.

We have studied the ideal lowpass lter, in some sense the best lowpass lter we can
think of. Its frequency response is characterised by

a passband centered around zero with cutoff frequency ωc

an infinite attenuation in the stop band

no phase term (aka no delay).

Its corresponding impulse response is a sinc function whose support is in nite. Thus it is
not possible to implement this lter with a nite number of operations. This is the
reason why we call this lter ideal and we will spend the following lessons to derive good
approximations. Furthermore, from the ideal lowpass lters, we have also derived ideal
highpass and bandpass lters.

We have concluded this lesson by revisiting the demodulation problem. When we

demodulate a signal, we multiply it by a cosine of the same carrier frequency and
subsequently apply a lowpass lter to get rid o the spurious high frequency
components.

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