Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics (eBook)

Front cover 1
Half title page 2
Editors page 3
Title page 4
Copyright page 5
Contents 6
Preface 8
Contributors 10
Future Contributions 12
Chapter 1. Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Photoemission and Electron Acceleration with Ultrashort Laser Pulses 16
1. Introduction 17
2. Electron Emission and Photoacceleration in Surface Plasmon Fields 18
3. Numerical Methods to Model Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Electron Acceleration 22
4. Experimental Results 31
5. The Role of the Carrier-Envelope Phase 36
6. Conclusions 38
Acknowledgments 39
References 39
Chapter 2. Did Physics Matter to the Pioneers of Microscopy? 42
1. Introduction 42
2. Setting the Scene 43
3. Traditional Limits of Light Microscopy 45
4. Origins of the Cell Theory 54
5. Pioneers of Field Microscopy 73
6. The Image of the Simple Microscope 85
Acknowledgments 99
References 100
Chapter 3. Image Decomposition: Theory, Numerical Schemes, and Performance Evaluation 104
1. Introduction 105
2. Preliminaries 105
3. Structures + Textures Decomposition 117
4. Structures + Textures + Noise Decomposition 125
5. Performance Evaluation 138
6. Conclusion 143
Appendix A. Chambolle's Nonlinear Projectors 145
References 150
Chapter 4. The Reverse Fuzzy Distance Transform and its Use when Studying the Shape of Macromolecules from Cryo-Electron Tomographic Data 154
1. Introduction 155
2. Preliminaries 157
3. Segmentation Using Region Growing by Means of the Reverse Fuzzy Distance Transform 166
4. Cryo-Electron Tomography for Imaging of Individual Macromolecules 168
5. From Electron Tomographic Structure to a Fuzzy Objects Representation 175
6. Identifying the Subunits of a Macromolecule 176
7. Identifying the Core of an Elongated Macromolecule 180
8. Conclusions 182
Acknowledgments 183
References 183
Chapter 5. Anchors of Morphological Operators and Algebraic Openings 188
1. Introduction 188
2. Morphological Anchors 197
3. Anchors of Algebraic Openings 210
4. Conclusions 214
References 215
Chapter 6. Temporal Filtering Technique Using Time Lenses for Optical Transmission Systems 218
1. Introduction 218
2. Configuration of a Time-Lens--based Optical Signal Processing System 221
3. Wavelength Division Demultiplexer 226
4. Dispersion Compensator 231
5. Optical Implementation of Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing Using Time Lenses 234
6. Conclusions 241
Acknowledgment 242
Appendix A 242
Appendix B 243
Appendix C 244
References 246
Contents of Volumes 151--157 248
Index 250