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Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy (FPM) L1-008

MicroscopySynthetic-aperture low-NA wide-FOV microscopyδ=5 · challengingL_DAG = 4📋 Stub — not mineable
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Forward model E

Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy (FPM): angular illumination scan produces the measurement through a 4-node primitive DAG S.scan.led_angle -> L.fourier_aperture -> L.modulus_squared -> int.angular, with multi-angle tomographic integration and photon-shot-noise-limited (Poisson counting). Recovery is posed as a non-convex inverse problem that inverts the forward operator to estimate the scene-side complex 2D. Difficulty tier delta=5 with effective condition number kappa_eff~80; calibration-level mismatch (LED_position_error, LED_intensity_variation, partial_coherence) sets the accuracy floor at the Omega boundary. See the forward_model field for the closed-form imaging equation.

L-DAG

S.scan.led_angle -> L.fourier_aperture -> L.modulus_squared -> int.angular
S.scan.led_angleL.fourier_apertureL.modulus_squaredint.angular

Well-posedness W

Existence:
true
Uniqueness:
true
Stability:
conditional
κ:
1600

Existence of the recovered complex 2D is guaranteed within the declared Omega bounds. Uniqueness is local rather than global (non-convex landscape); convergence depends on initialisation and priors. Stability is ill-conditioned (kappa_eff ~= 80); LED_position_error dominates the stability cliff; LED_intensity_variation and the remaining mismatch parameters contribute higher-order bias terms. Photon-shot-noise-limited (poisson counting) sets the irreducible data-fidelity floor, while TV / wavelet-sparsity / deep priors stabilise recovery at the ill-conditioned end of Omega.

Solvability C

Solver class:
iterative projection (ADMM / GAP) + optimisation [GS-FPM, EPIE-FPM] | linear-operator + deep neural prior [DeepFPM]
Convergence rate q:
2
Complexity:
O(H * W * log(...)) per iteration; learned variants: O(H W Z * F_theta_cost) per forward pass

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