Sampling and series expansion for linear canonical transform

The linear canonical transform (LCT) has been shown to be a powerful tool for optics and signal processing. This paper investigates new sampling relations in the LCT domain. Firstly, the relationship between linear canonical series (LCS) and LCT is introduced. The LCS expansion coefficients are the sampled values of LCT. Then, based on the conventional Fourier series and LCS, two new sampling relations in the LCT domain are presented, where the signal in the time domain is reconstructed from the samples of its LCT directly. The first theorem considers signals band-limited in some LCT domain, and the second deals with signals band-limited in the conventional Fourier transform domain.