Quadrature filter
In signal processing, a quadrature filter is the analytic representation of the impulse response
of a real-valued filter:
If the quadrature filter is applied to a signal
, the result is
which implies that is the analytic representation of
.
Since is an analytic signal, it is either zero or complex-valued. In practice, therefore,
is often implemented as two real-valued filters, which correspond to the real and imaginary parts of the filter, respectively.