Direct Evaluation of the Joint Uncertainty

Lacking a successful result which specifies the real functions which achieve the lowest joint uncertainty product, we will seek to evaluate the uncertainty directly for both the Hermite functions and the Gaussian derivatives.

We first define a generalized Hermite function in both space and spatial frequency.

Where Hn,(x) are generalized Hermite polynomials with the following relationships to the Hermite polynomials previously defined: