The Kaiser window, also known as the Kaiser–Bessel window, was developed by James Kaiser at Bell Laboratories. It is a one-parameter family of window functions used for digital signal processing, and is defined by the formula:
where:
When N is an odd number, the peak value of the window is and when N is even, the peak values are
Underlying the discrete sequence is this continuous-time function and its Fourier transform:
The maximum value of w0(t) is w0(0) = 1. The w[n] sequence defined above are the samples of: