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Development of Linear Canonical Transforms: A Historical Sketch
Kurt Bernardo Wolf
- pp 3-28
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In this paper, the authors summarize the construction of the LCT integral transforms, detailing their Lie-algebraic relation with second-order differential operators, which is the origin of the metaplectic phase.Abstract:
Linear canonical transformations (LCTs) were introduced almost simultaneously during the early 1970s by Stuart A. Collins Jr. in paraxial optics, and independently by Marcos Moshinsky and Christiane Quesne in quantum mechanics, to understand the conservation of information and of uncertainty under linear maps of phase space. Only in the 1990s did both sources begin to be referred jointly in the growing literature, which has expanded into a field common to applied optics, mathematical physics, and analogic and digital signal analysis. In this introductory chapter we recapitulate the construction of the LCT integral transforms, detailing their Lie-algebraic relation with second-order differential operators, which is the origin of the metaplectic phase. Radial and hyperbolic LCTs are reviewed as unitary integral representations of the two-dimensional symplectic group, with complex extension to a semigroup for systems with loss or gain. Some of the more recent developments on discrete and finite analogues of LCTs are commented with their concomitant problems, whose solutions and alternatives are contained the body of this book.read more
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The Fractional Order Fourier Transform and its Application to Quantum Mechanics
TL;DR: In this article, a generalized operational calculus is developed, paralleling the familiar one for the ordinary transform, which provides a convenient technique for solving certain classes of ordinary and partial differential equations which arise in quantum mechanics from classical quadratic hamiltonians.
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The Fractional Fourier Transform: with Applications in Optics and Signal Processing
TL;DR: The fractional Fourier transform (FFT) as discussed by the authors has been used in a variety of applications, such as matching filtering, detection, and pattern recognition, as well as signal recovery.