Bessel analog lowpass filter prototype
[z,p,k] = besselap(n)
[z,p,k] = besselap(n)
returns the poles and gain of an order-n
Bessel analog lowpass filter prototype.n
must be less than or equal to 25. The function returns the poles in the lengthn
column vectorp
and the gain in scalark
.z
is an empty matrix because there are no zeros. The transfer function is
besselap
normalizes the poles and gain so that at low frequency and high frequency the Bessel prototype is asymptotically equivalent to the Butterworth prototype of the same order[1]. The magnitude of the filter is less than
at the unity cutoff frequency Ωc= 1.
Analog Bessel filters are characterized by a group delay that is maximally flat at zero frequency and almost constant throughout the passband. The group delay at zero frequency is
besselap
finds the filterroots from a lookup table constructed using Symbolic Math Toolbox™ software.
[1] Rabiner, L. R., and B. Gold. Theory and Application of Digital Signal Processing. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975, pp. 228–230.