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Controlling the flow of broadband electromagnetic energy at the nanoscale remains a critical challenge in optoelectronics. Surface plasmon polaritons (or plasmons) provide subwavelength localization of light, but are affected by significant…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-15 Maxim S. Elizarov , Yuri S. Kivshar , A. Fratalocchi

The inverse source problem for the radiative transfer equation is considered, with partial data. Here it is shown that under certain smoothness conditions on the scattering and absorption coefficients, one can recover sources supported in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Mark Hubenthal

The problem of recovering coefficients in a diffusion equation is one of the basic inverse problems. Perhaps the most important term is the one that couples the length and time scales and is often referred to as {\it the\/} diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

Comparison of numerical performances of two methods for coefficient inverse problems is described. The first one is the classical Gel'fand-Levitan-Krein equation method, and the second one is the recently developed approximately globally…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-19 Andrey L. Karchevsky , Michael V. Klibanov , Lam Nguyen , Natee Pantong , Anders Sullivan

This work addresses an inverse reconstruction task for a time-fractional pseudo-parabolic model with a temporally varying coefficient. By imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions, we aim to recover the unknown initial state from observations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Arshyn Altybay

Refractive Index Tomography is the inverse problem of reconstructing the continuously-varying 3D refractive index in a scene using 2D projected image measurements. Although a purely refractive field is not directly visible, it bends light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Brandon Zhao , Aviad Levis , Liam Connor , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Katherine L. Bouman

This paper considers the inverse problem of recovering state-dependent source terms in a reaction-diffusion system from overposed data consisting of the values of the state variables either at a fixed finite time (census-type data) or a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

We introduce a novel reflection-mode diffraction tomography technique that enables simultaneous recovery of forward and backward scattering information for high-resolution 3D refractive index reconstruction. Our technique works by imaging a…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-12 Tongyu Li , Jiabei Zhu , Yi Shen , Lei Tian

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of reconstructing an inhomogeneous medium from the acoustic far-field data at a fixed frequency in two dimensions. This inverse problem is severely ill-posed (and also strongly nonlinear),…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Kai Li , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

Materials combining both a high refractive index and a wide band gap are of great interest for optoelectronic and sensor applications. However, these two properties are typically described by an inverse correlation with high refractive…

We consider the following inverse problem: Suppose a $(1+1)$-dimensional wave equation on $\mathbb{R}_+$ with zero initial conditions is excited with a Neumann boundary data modelled as a white noise process. Given also the Dirichlet data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Emilia L. K. Blåsten , Tapio Helin , Antti Kujanpää , Lauri Oksanen , Jesse Railo

It is shown that the contraction mapping principle with the involvement of a Carleman Weight Function works for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for a 1D hyperbolic equation. Using a Carleman estimate, the global convergence of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Thuy T. Le , Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen , Anders Sullivan , Lam Nguyen

In this work, an inverse problem in the fractional diffusion equation with random source is considered. The measurements used are the statistical moments of the realizations of single point data $u(x_0,t,\omega).$ We build the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Shubin Fu , Zhidong Zhang

We consider the inverse problem of identification of degenerate diffusion coefficient of the form $x^\alpha a(x)$ in a one dimensional parabolic equation by some extra data. We first prove by energy methods the uniqueness and Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Piermarco Cannarsa , Anna Doubova , Masahiro Yamamoto

The problem studied in this paper is ultrasound image reconstruction from frequency-domain measurements of the scattered field from an object with contrast in attenuation and sound speed. The case where the object has uniform but unknown…

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We propose a method to reconstruct the optical properties of a scattering medium with subwavelength resolution. The method is based on the solution to the inverse scattering problem with photoactivated internal sources. Numerical…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-01 Anna C. Gilbert , Howard W. Levinson , John C. Schotland

The paper studies an imaging problem in the diffusive ultrasound-modulated bioluminescence tomography with partial boundary measurement in an anisotropic medium. Assuming plane-wave modulation, we transform the imaging problem to an inverse…

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In this paper, we investigate the problem of inverse electromagnetic scattering to recover multilayer human tissue profiles using ultrawideband radar systems in a Bayesian setting. We study the recovery problem in a blind setting, in which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-30 Burak Cevat Civek , Emre Ertin

This paper investigates an inverse source problem for space-time fractional diffusion equations from a posteriori interior measurements. The uniqueness result is established by the memory effect of fractional derivatives and the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Kai Yu , Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu

Precise calibration is a must for high reliance 3D computer vision algorithms. A challenging case is when the camera is behind a protective glass or transparent object: due to refraction, the image is heavily distorted; the pinhole camera…

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