Multichannel sampling theorem for bandpass signals in the linear canonical transform domain

Abstract The linear canonical transform (LCT) describes the effect of first-order quadratic phase optical system on a wave field. The classical multichannel sampling theorem for common bandlimited signals has been extended differently to bandlimited signals associated with LCT. However, a practical issue associated with the reconstruction of the original bandpass signal from multichannel samples in LCT domain still remains unresolved. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a practical multichannel sampling theorem for bandpass signals in LCT domain. The sampling expansion which is constructed by the ordinary convolution in the time domain can reduce the effect of spectral leakage and is easy to implement. The classical multichannel sampling theorem and the well-known sampling theorems for the LCT are shown to be special cases of it. Some potential applications of the multichannel sampling are also presented to show the advantage of the theory.