Orders 1 to 5 on a fractional delay of 0.4 samples

Figure shows the amplitude responses of Lagrange interpolation, orders 1 through 5, for the case of implementing an interpolated delay line of length samples. In all cases the interpolator follows a delay line of appropriate length so that the interpolator coefficients operate over their central one-sample interval. Figure shows the corresponding phase delays. As discussed in §4.2.10, the amplitude response of every odd-order case is constrained to be zero at half the sampling rate when the delay is half-way between integers, which this example is near. As a result, the curves for the two even-order interpolators lie above the three odd-order interpolators at high frequencies in Fig.. It is also interesting to note that the 4th-order interpolator, while showing a wider ``pass band,'' exhibits more attenuation near half the sampling rate than the 2nd-order interpolator.

Figure 4.13: Amplitude responses, Lagrange interpolation, orders 1 to 5, for an interpolated delay of samples. From the bottom-right corner along the right edge, the curves represent orders 1,3,5,4,2.

Figure 4.14: Phase delays, Lagrange interpolation, orders 1 to 5, for an interpolated delay of samples. From bottom to top, the curves represent orders 2,4,1,3,5.

In the phase-delay plots of Fig., all cases are exact at frequency zero. At half the sampling rate they all give 5 samples of delay.

Note that all three odd-order phase delay curves look generally better in Fig. than both of the even-order phase delays. Recall from Fig. that the two even-order amplitude responses outperformed all three odd-order cases. This illustrates a basic trade-off between gain accuracy and delay accuracy. The even-order interpolators show generally less attenuation at high frequencies (because they are not constrained to approach a gain of zero at half the sampling rate for a half-sample delay), but they pay for that with a relatively inferior phase-delay performance at high frequencies.