Kaiser window

The Kaiser window, also known as the Kaiser–Bessel window, was developed by James Kaiser
at Bell Laboratories. It is a one-parameter family of window functions used for digital signal
processing, and is defined by the formula[1][2]:

where I0 is the zero-th order modified Bessel function of the first kind. Variable
parameter α determines the tradeoff between main lobe width and side lobe levels of the spectral
leakage pattern. The main lobe width, in between the nulls, is given by 2 in units of DFT
bins,[47] and a typical value of α is 3.

where:

 N is the length of the sequence,

 I0 is the zeroth-order modified Bessel function of the first kind,
 α is an arbitrary, non-negative real number that determines the shape of the window. In the
frequency domain, it determines the trade-off between main-lobe width and side lobe level,
which is a central decision in window design.

When N is an odd number, the peak value of the window is w[(N-1)/2]=1, and when N is
even, the peak values are w[N/2=1] = w[N/2] <1.