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Streak Camera — picosecond 1D time-resolved imaging L1-149

Ultrafast Imaging1D time-resolved photoelectron streakingδ=5 · challengingL_DAG = 3.3📋 Stub — not mineable
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Forward model E

Streak Camera — picosecond 1D time-resolved imaging: streak tube time resolved produces the measurement through a 4-node primitive DAG L.photocathode -> L.sweep_voltage -> D.streaked_phosphor -> int.temporal, with time-integrated exposure and photon-shot-noise-limited (Poisson counting). Recovery is posed as a linear inverse problem that inverts the forward operator to estimate the scene-side 1D time trace. Difficulty tier delta=5 with effective condition number kappa_eff~12; calibration-level mismatch (sweep_nonlinearity, photocathode_jitter, space_charge) sets the accuracy floor at the Omega boundary. See the forward_model field for the closed-form imaging equation.

L-DAG

L.photocathode -> L.sweep_voltage -> D.streaked_phosphor -> int.temporal
L.photocathodeL.sweep_voltageD.streaked_phosphorint.temporal

Well-posedness W

Existence:
true
Uniqueness:
true
Stability:
conditional
κ:
240

Existence of the recovered 1D time trace is guaranteed within the declared Omega bounds. Uniqueness holds on the measurement-supported subspace; out-of-support modes are controlled by the declared priors. Stability is moderately conditioned (kappa_eff ~= 12); sweep_nonlinearity dominates the stability cliff; photocathode_jitter and the remaining mismatch parameters contribute higher-order bias terms. Photon-shot-noise-limited (poisson counting) sets the irreducible data-fidelity floor, while mild Tikhonov or analytic inversion is sufficient at the nominal Omega point.

Solvability C

Solver class:
analytic / closed-form + post-processing [Simple-Transform] | linear-operator + convex optimisation [TV-ADMM-Streak] | linear-operator + deep neural prior [Streak-Net]
Convergence rate q:
2
Complexity:
O(H * W * N_spectral_bins * log(...)) per iteration; learned variants: O(H W Z * F_theta_cost) per forward pass

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