MATLAB Function Reference

fftshift - Shift zero-frequency component to center of spectrum

Syntax

Y = fftshift(X)
Y = fftshift(X,dim)

Description

Y = fftshift(X) rearranges the outputs of fft, fft2, and fftn by moving the zero-frequency component to the center of the array. It is useful for visualizing a Fourier transform with the zero-frequency component in the middle of the spectrum.

For vectors, fftshift(X) swaps the left and right halves of X. For matrices, fftshift(X) swaps the first quadrant with the third and the second quadrant with the fourth.

For higher-dimensional arrays, fftshift(X) swaps "half-spaces" of X along each dimension.

Y = fftshift(X,dim) applies the fftshift operation along the dimension dim.

Note   ifftshift will undo the results of fftshift. If the matrix X contains an odd number of elements, ifftshift(fftshift(X)) must be done to obtain the original X. Simply performing fftshift(X) twice will not produce X.

Examples

For any matrix X

Y = fft2(X)

has Y(1,1) = sum(sum(X)); the zero-frequency component of the signal is in the upper-left corner of the two-dimensional FFT. For

Z = fftshift(Y)

this zero-frequency component is near the center of the matrix.

See Also

circshift, fft, fft2, fftn, ifftshift

fftn

fftw