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Because the frequency span goes from ≈ 0 to the Nyquist frequency, the best way 
to prevent aliasing is to make sure that the frequency span is greater than the 
frequencies of significant energy present in the input signal.
FFT Spectral Leakage
The FFT operation assumes that the time record repeats. Unless there is an 
integral number of cycles of the sampled waveform in the record, a discontinuity is 
created at the end of the record. This is referred to as leakage. In order to minimize 
spectral leakage, windows that approach zero smoothly at the beginning and end 
of the signal are employed as filters to the FFT. The FFT menu provides four 
windows: Hanning, Flat Top, Rectangular, and Blackman-Harris. For more 
information on leakage, see Keysight Application Note 243, The Fundamentals of 
Signal Analysis at 
http://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/5952-8898E.pdf.
Figure 9 Aliasing