Phase retrieval for wide band signals (Q785895)

The problem of recovering the phase of a function \(f\) using given data on its magnitude \(|f|\) was widely studied due to the multitude of physical applications in various domains of activity. In the engineering community wide-band signals and narrow-banded are of great importance. In this paper wide-band signals are investigated in a general form which permits to use the canonical inner-outer factorization theorem, via Fourier transforms. To do this, firstly some notations and preliminaries are given and Hardy spaces on the unit disc and Hardy spaces on a strip in the complex plane are presented. Also the corresponding inner-outer canonical factorizations are remembered and the phase retrieval is investigated. For simplicity and to use the nice properties in the Hardy space on the disc, the problem of recovering the phase is first translated to the Hardy spaces on the unit disc, via conformal bijection, obtaining an equality of the magnitudes for functions on the disc from the equality for some functions on the strip. After obtaining the results on the disc, it is going back to the phase retrieval problem on the strip. Usually the solution set of a phase retrieval problem is very large. To reduce the solution set as much as possible, additional constrains are considered, such as the particular cases of Pauli's problem, restriction to the modulus on a segment in the strip, and other cases of the coupled phase retrieval problem, i.e., problems of the form \(|u|=|v|, |Tu|=|Tv|\), where \(T\) is an appropriate transform, with the aim to reduce the solution set, or even to achieve uniqueness.