  We extend the concept of exponential B-spline to complex orders. This
extension contains as special cases the class of exponential splines and also
the class of polynomial B-splines of complex order. We derive a time domain
representation of a complex exponential B-spline depending on a single
parameter and establish a connection to fractional differential operators
defined on Lizorkin spaces. Moreover, we prove that complex exponential splines
give rise to multiresolution analyses of $L^2(\mathbb{R})$ and define wavelet
bases for $L^2(\mathbb{R})$.
