TITLE: What is the unit of the FFT output?
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: Consider a signal, f(t), with impulse samples taken N times, i.e f[0],f[1],f[2],...f[N-1] Let us perform FFT on it. Now, we have the amplitude on the y-axis and the frequency on the x-axis. I want to know if the unit of the quantity on the y-axis remains the same. If yes, why? If no, what happens to it? 
Example: If we consider a voltage signal. What will be the unit of the quantity on y-axis after FFT of f(t)?

REPLY [6 votes]: It's still a voltage. If you do a continuous Fourier transform, you go from signal to signal integrated over time, which is signal per frequency, but in a discrete Fourier transform you're just summing discrete voltages with coefficients, and the result is still a voltage. Of course if you want you can multiply it by the time interval between sample points to get a voltage per frequency unit.