FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) - a method for phase continuation

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petol
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Hello everyone,
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When one performs a FFT, he/she/IT ;) gets the amplitude and phase spectra. The phase spectrum ranges from -PI to PI. Then, there are of course places where the phase spectrum is discontinuous because it exceeds the range. How to obtain such continuous phase spectrum? Does anyone know the idea for this?
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Maybe this picture will help. I duplicated the same phase spectrum several times and shifted n*PI each.
I'm looking for such method because I've seen it in some paper works.
 
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  • Gnuplot graph of several phase curves plotted against a horizontal axis from 0 to about 2.5 and a vertical axis from about -2 to 17, with the same curve repeated and offset upward by multiples of pi in a legend-labelled stack.
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