Is there an easy/general way to calculate this? For instance, the rectangular window has a maximum scalloping loss of 0.3634, which can be derived in frequency domain from a normalized sinc(0.5)
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The only way, given a precomputed window function, I can think of, is to apply the window function to a signal whose period is 2pi*(k + 0.5)/N and amplitude A, calculate a N FFT and measure the bin k. Bin k should have a magnitude of A * N * f, where f is a factor giving the worst-case scalloping loss, irrespective of N/sampling size, right?
Answer
Harris defines the scalloping loss as the ratio of coherent gain for a tone located half a bin from a DFT sample to the coherent gain at a sample (see the paper for the definitions) SL=|∑nw(nT)e−jπNn|∑nw(nT)=W(ω1/2)W(0)
ω1/2=πNT
Guess the value you are after is really 1−SL
EDIT: I believe the left hand side of the equation is enough to answer @Shaggi's question, but to clarify a bit the notation of the rest, Harris defines DFTs as functions of ωk, so
W(ωk)=W(2πkNT)==∑nw(nT)e−jωknT=∑nw(nT)e−j2πkn/NW(ω1/2)=∑nw(nT)e−jπn/NW(0)=∑nw(nT)
F. J. Harris - On the Use of Windows for Harmonic Analysis with the Discrete Fourier Transform
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