Caputo-Based Fractional Derivative in Fractional Fourier Transform Domain

This paper proposes a novel closed-form analytical expression of the fractional derivative of a signal in the Fourier transform (FT) and the fractional Fourier transform (FrFT) domain by utilizing the fundamental principles of the fractional order calculus. The generalization of the differentiation property in the FT and the FrFT domain to the fractional orders has been presented based on the Caputo's definition of the fractional differintegral, thereby achieving the flexibility of different rotation angles in the time—frequency plane with varying fractional order parameter. The closed-form analytical expression is derived in terms of the well-known higher transcendental function known as confluent hypergeometric function. The design examples are demonstrated to show the comparative analysis between the established and the proposed method for causal signals corrupted with high-frequency chirp noise and it is shown that the fractional order differentiating filter based on Caputo's definition is presenting good performance than the established results. An application example of a low-pass finite impulse response fractional order differentiating filter in the FrFT domain based on the definition of Caputo fractional differintegral method has also been investigated taking into account amplitude-modulated signal corrupted with high-frequency chirp noise.