A Note on the Operator Window of Modulation Spaces

Inspired by the recent article Skrettingland (J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 28(2), 1–34 (2022)), this paper is devoted to the study of a suitable class of windows in the framework of bounded linear operators on \(L^2({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\). We establish a natural and complete characterization for the window class such that the corresponding STFT leads to equivalent norms on modulation spaces. The positive bounded linear operators are also characterized by its Cohen’s class distributions such that the corresponding quantities form equivalent norms on modulation spaces. As a generalization, we introduce a family of operator classes corresponding to the operator-valued modulation spaces. Some applications of our main theorems to the localization operators are also concerned.