# 6.1 Continuous time fourier series (ctfs)

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This module describes the continuous time Fourier Series (CTFS). It is based on the following modules:Fourier Series: Eigenfunction Approach at http://cnx.org/content/m10496/latest/ by Justin Romberg, Derivation of Fourier Coefficients Equation at http://cnx.org/content/m10733/latest/ by Michael Haag,Fourier Series and LTI Systems at http://cnx.org/content/m10752/latest/ by Justin Romberg, and Fourier Series Wrap-Up at http://cnx.org/content/m10749/latest/ by Michael Haag and Justin Romberg.

## Introduction

In this module, we will derive an expansion for continuous-time, periodic functions, and in doing so, derive the Continuous Time Fourier Series (CTFS).

Since complex exponentials are eigenfunctions of linear time-invariant (LTI) systems , calculating the output of an LTI system $ℋ$ given $e^{st}$ as an input amounts to simple multiplication, where $H(s)\in \mathbb{C}$ is the eigenvalue corresponding to s. As shown in the figure, a simple exponential input would yield the output

$y(t)=H(s)e^{st}$

Using this and the fact that $ℋ$ is linear, calculating $y(t)$ for combinations of complex exponentials is also straightforward.

${c}_{1}e^{{s}_{1}t}+{c}_{2}e^{{s}_{2}t}\to {c}_{1}H({s}_{1})e^{{s}_{1}t}+{c}_{2}H({s}_{2})e^{{s}_{2}t}$ $\sum {c}_{n}e^{{s}_{n}t}\to \sum {c}_{n}H({s}_{n})e^{{s}_{n}t}$

The action of $H$ on an input such as those in the two equations above is easy to explain. $ℋ$ independently scales each exponential component $e^{{s}_{n}t}$ by a different complex number $H({s}_{n})\in \mathbb{C}$ . As such, if we can write a function $f(t)$ as a combination of complex exponentials it allows us to easily calculate the output of a system.

## Fourier series synthesis

Joseph Fourier demonstrated that an arbitrary $f(t)$ can be written as a linear combination of harmonic complex sinusoids

$f(t)=\sum$ c n j ω 0 n t
where ${\omega }_{0}=\frac{2\pi }{T}$ is the fundamental frequency. For almost all $f(t)$ of practical interest, there exists ${c}_{n}$ to make [link] true. If $f(t)$ is finite energy ( $f(t)\in L(0, T)^{2}$ ), then the equality in [link] holds in the sense of energy convergence; if $f(t)$ is continuous, then [link] holds pointwise. Also, if $f(t)$ meets some mild conditions (the Dirichlet conditions), then [link] holds pointwise everywhere except at points of discontinuity.

The ${c}_{n}$ - called the Fourier coefficients - tell us "how much" of the sinusoid $e^{j{\omega }_{0}nt}$ is in $f(t)$ . The formula shows $f(t)$ as a sum of complex exponentials, each of which is easily processed by an LTI system (since it is an eigenfunction of every LTI system). Mathematically, it tells us that the set ofcomplex exponentials $\{\forall n, n\in \mathbb{Z}\colon e^{j{\omega }_{0}nt}\}$ form a basis for the space of T-periodic continuous time functions.

We know from Euler's formula that $cos\left(\omega t\right)+sin\left(\omega t\right)=\frac{1-j}{2}{e}^{j\omega t}+\frac{1+j}{2}{e}^{-j\omega t}.$

## Fourier series analysis

Finding the coefficients of the Fourier series expansion involves some algebraic manipulation of the synthesis formula. First of all we will multiply both sides of the equation by $e^{-(j{\omega }_{0}kt)}$ , where $k\in \mathbb{Z}$ .

$f(t)e^{-(j{\omega }_{0}kt)}=\sum$ c n j ω 0 n t j ω 0 k t
Now integrate both sides over a given period, $T$ :
$\int_{0}^{T} f(t)e^{-(j{\omega }_{0}kt)}\,d t=\int_{0}^{T} \sum \,d t$ c n j ω 0 n t j ω 0 k t
On the right-hand side we can switch the summation andintegral and factor the constant out of the integral.
$\int_{0}^{T} f(t)e^{-(j{\omega }_{0}kt)}\,d t=\sum$ c n t T 0 j ω 0 n k t
Now that we have made this seemingly more complicated, let us focus on just the integral, $\int_{0}^{T} e^{j{\omega }_{0}(n-k)t}\,d t$ , on the right-hand side of the above equation. For this integral we will need to consider two cases: $n=k$ and $n\neq k$ . For $n=k$ we will have:
$\forall n, n=k\colon \int_{0}^{T} e^{j{\omega }_{0}(n-k)t}\,d t=T$
For $n\neq k$ , we will have:
$\forall n, n\neq k\colon \int_{0}^{T} e^{j{\omega }_{0}(n-k)t}\,d t=\int_{0}^{T} \cos ({\omega }_{0}(n-k)t)\,d t+j\int_{0}^{T} \sin ({\omega }_{0}(n-k)t)\,d t$
But $\cos ({\omega }_{0}(n-k)t)$ has an integer number of periods, $n-k$ , between $0$ and $T$ . Imagine a graph of the cosine; because it has an integer number of periods, there areequal areas above and below the x-axis of the graph. This statement holds true for $\sin ({\omega }_{0}(n-k)t)$ as well. What this means is
$\int_{0}^{T} \cos ({\omega }_{0}(n-k)t)\,d t=0$
which also holds for the integral involving the sine function. Therefore, we conclude the following about our integral ofinterest:
$\int_{0}^{T} e^{j{\omega }_{0}(n-k)t}\,d t=\begin{cases}T & \text{if n=k}\\ 0 & \text{otherwise}\end{cases}$
Now let us return our attention to our complicated equation, [link] , to see if we can finish finding an equation for our Fourier coefficients. Using thefacts that we have just proven above, we can see that the only time [link] will have a nonzero result is when $k$ and $n$ are equal:
$\forall n, n=k\colon \int_{0}^{T} f(t)e^{-(j{\omega }_{0}nt)}\,d t=T{c}_{n}$
Finally, we have our general equation for the Fourier coefficients:
${c}_{n}=\frac{1}{T}\int_{0}^{T} f(t)e^{-(j{\omega }_{0}nt)}\,d t$

Consider the square wave function given by

$x\left(t\right)=\left\{\begin{array}{cc}1/2& t\le 1/2\\ -1/2& t>1/2\end{array}\right)$

on the unit interval $t\in \mathbb{Z}\left[0,1\right)$ .

$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill {c}_{k}& ={\int }_{0}^{1}x\left(t\right){e}^{-j2\pi kt}dt\hfill \\ & ={\int }_{0}^{1/2}\frac{1}{2}{e}^{-j2\pi kt}dt-{\int }_{1/2}^{1}\frac{1}{2}{e}^{-j2\pi kt}dt\hfill \\ & =\frac{j\left(-,1,+,{e}^{j\pi k}\right)}{2\pi k}\hfill \end{array}$

Thus, the Fourier coefficients of this function found using the Fourier series analysis formula are

${c}_{k}=\left\{\begin{array}{cc}-j/\pi k& \mathrm{k}\mathrm{odd}\\ 0& \mathrm{k}\mathrm{even}\end{array}\right).$

## Fourier series summary

Because complex exponentials are eigenfunctions of LTI systems, it is often useful to represent signals using a set of complex exponentials as a basis. The continuous time Fourier series synthesis formula expresses a continuous time, periodic function as the sum of continuous time, discrete frequency complex exponentials.

$f(t)=\sum$ c n j ω 0 n t
The continuous time Fourier series analysis formula gives the coefficients of the Fourier series expansion.
${c}_{n}=\frac{1}{T}\int_{0}^{T} f(t)e^{-(j{\omega }_{0}nt)}\,d t$
In both of these equations ${\omega }_{0}=\frac{2\pi }{T}$ is the fundamental frequency.

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