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Similar to the obstacle or medium scattering problems, an important property of the phaseless far field patterns for source scattering problems is the translation invariance. Thus it is impossible to reconstruct the location of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

We consider imaging the reflectivity of scatterers from intensity-only data recorded by a single moving transducer that both emits and receives signals, forming a synthetic aperture. By exploiting frequency illumination diversity, we obtain…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Miguel Moscoso , Alexei Novikov , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

An inverse source reconstruction (ISR) based 3-D near-field (NF) passive radar microwave imaging method utilizing modulated signals is presented. The modulated signals from a non-cooperative transmitter are scattered by the targets of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Quanfeng Wang , Alexander H. Paulus , Thomas F. Eibert

Quantum channels in free-space, an essential prerequisite for fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and quantum technologies in open space, have so far been based on direct line-of-sight because the predominant approaches for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Shihan Sajeed , Thomas Jennewein

This paper considers the problem of sampling and reconstruction of a continuous-time sparse signal without assuming the knowledge of the sampling instants or the sampling rate. This topic has its roots in the problem of recovering multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Ayush Bhandari , Aurelien Bourquard , Ramesh Raskar

Recently introduced angular-memory-effect based techniques enable non-invasive imaging of objects hidden behind thin scattering layers. However, both the speckle-correlation and the bispectrum analysis are based on the statistical average…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Tengfei Wu , Jonathan Dong , Xiaopeng Shao , Sylvain Gigan

This paper is concerned with the inverse obstacle scattering problem with phaseless far-field data at a fixed frequency. The main difficulty of this problem is the so-called translation invariance property of the modulus of the far-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

In this paper we consider narrow band, active array imaging of weak localized scatterers when only the intensities are recorded at an array with N transducers. We consider that the medium is homogeneous and, hence, wave propagation is fully…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Miguel Moscoso , Alexei Novikov , George Papanicolaou

We present a semianalytical method to obtain perfect transmission across abrupt H-plane bends in single-mode rectangular waveguides using a single passive polarizable element (scatterer). The underlying analysis and synthesis schemes are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Liran Biniashvili , Ariel Epstein

Quantum entanglement and squeezing have significantly improved phase estimation and imaging in interferometric settings beyond the classical limits. However, for a wide class of non-interferometric phase imaging/retrieval methods vastly…

In an ultrasonic array system, increasing the aperture size to achieve a high resolution requires more transmit and receive channels, thus making it essential to have an analysis technique that can reconstruct the shape and physical…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-21 Kai Yabumoto , Takayoshi Yumii , Kenjiro Kimura

The problem of the real-time microwave imaging of small, moving objects from a scattering matrix, whose elements are measured scattering parameters, without diagonal elements is considered herein. An imaging algorithm based on a Kirchhoff…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Seong-Ho Son , Kwang-Jae Lee , Won-Kwang Park

Reconstruction of multidimensional signals from the samples of their partial derivatives is known to be a standard problem in inverse theory. Such and similar problems routinely arise in numerous areas of applied sciences, including optical…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-05-30 Mohammad Rostami , Oleg Michailovich , Zhou Wang

We prove a new uniqueness theorem for an inverse scattering problem without the phase information for the 3-D Helmholtz equation. The spatially distributed dielectric constant is the subject of the interest in this problem. We consider the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-03 Michael V. Klibanov

We report a compact, cost-effective and field-portable lensless imaging platform for quantitative microscopy. In this platform, the object is placed on top of an image sensor chip without using any lens. We use a low-cost galvo scanner to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-26 He Zhang , Zichao Bian , Shaowei Jiang , Jian Liu , Pengming Song , Guoan Zheng

Scattering hinders the passage of light through random media and consequently limits the usefulness of optical techniques for sensing and imaging. Thus, methods for increasing the transmission of light through such random media are of…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-23 Curtis Jin , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Eric Michielssen , Stephen Rand

We propose a method for optical nano-imaging in which the structure of a three-dimensional inhomogeneous medium may be recovered from far-field power measurements. Neither phase control of the illuminating field nor phase measurements of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-02 Alexander A. Govyadinov , George Y. Panasyuk , John C. Schotland

The realm of classical phase retrieval concerns itself with the arduous task of recovering a signal from its Fourier magnitude measurements, which are fraught with inherent ambiguities. A single-exposure intensity measurement is commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yixiao Yang , Ran Tao , Kaixuan Wei , Jun Shi

This paper is concerned with uniqueness, phase retrieval and shape reconstruction methods for solving inverse electromagnetic source scattering problems with multi-frequency sparse phased or phaseless far field data. With the phased data,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-07 Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu

We are interested in a time harmonic acoustic problem in a waveguide with locally perturbed sound hard walls. We consider a setting where an observer generates incident plane waves at $-\infty$ and probes the resulting scattered field at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Ben Dhia , Lucas Chesnel , Sergei A. Nazarov