Issues with Direct Fourier Transform in Mathematica

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Issues with Discrete Fourier Transform in Mathematica

Maybe someone else had this problem.
Lets say we have a sampled Gaussian pulse in time domain and transform it into frequency domain. For that I use the discrete Fourier transform. Now the resulting set of transformed values is made up of complex numbers. I want to extract two things from that set: Amplitude distribution and frequency distribution.
The first one is straight forward - I just take the absolute value of the complex numbers an the resulting set of values has a Gaussian shape.
However I have problems getting the frequencies. I don't know how to extract them by having the phase of the Fourier set. And no matter what I do I can't get the Gaussian frequency distribution.
All ideas will be greatly appreciated.
 
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