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We present a simple, frequency domain, preprocessing step to Kirchhoff migration that allows the method to image scatterers when the wave field phase information is lost at the receivers, and only intensities are measured. The resulting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Patrick Bardsley , Fernando Guevara Vasquez

Phase retrieval from phaseless short-time Fourier transform (STFT) measurements is known to be inherently unstable when measurements are taken with respect to a single window. While an explicit inversion formula exists, it is useless in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Rima Alaifari , Yunan Yang

This paper is concerned with an inverse obstacle scattering problem of an acoustic wave for a single incident plane wave and a wave number. The Colton-Sleeman theorem states the unique recovery of sound-soft obstacles with a smooth boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Masaru Ikehata

Uniqueness theorems are proved for 3-d inverse scattering problems in the frequency domain under the assumption that only the modulus of the complex valued wave field is measured, while the phase is unknown.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Michael V. Klibanov

In this paper, we consider the inverse scattering problem associated with an anisotropic medium with a conductive boundary. We will assume that the corresponding far-field pattern is known/measured and we consider two inverse problems.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Victor Hughes , Isaac Harris , Heejin Lee

The goal of this paper is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from complex-valued scattered wave field by solving a 3D coefficient inverse problem for the Helmholtz equation at multi-frequencies. The data are generated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen , Hui Liu

Consider the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by heterogeneous media consisting of linear or nonlinear point scatterers and extended obstacles. A generalized Foldy-Lax formulation is developed to take fully into account of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Jun Lai , Ming Li , Peijun Li , Wei Li

The 3-d inverse scattering problem of the reconstruction of the unknown dielectric permittivity in the generalized Helmholtz equation is considered. The main difference with the conventional inverse scattering problems is that only the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Michael V. Klibanov , Vladimir G. Romanov

Inverse scattering is the process of estimating the spatial distribution of the scattering potential of an object by measuring the scattered wavefields around it. In this paper, we consider reflection tomography of high contrast objects…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Ajinkya Kadu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

In coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) experiments, the intensity of the scattered wave impinging on an object is measured on an array of detectors. This signal can be interpreted as the square of the modulus of the Fourier transform of the…

We provide a description of the far-field encountered in the diffraction problem resulting from the interaction of a monochromatic plane-wave and a right-angled no-contrast penetrable wedge. To achieve this, we employ a two-complex-variable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Valentin D. Kunz , Raphael C. Assier

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

Solving the wave equation is one of the most (if not the most) fundamental problems we face as we try to illuminate the Earth using recorded seismic data. The Helmholtz equation provides wavefield solutions that are dimensionally reduced,…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tariq Alkhalifah , Chao Song , Umair bin Waheed , Qi Hao

In a medium where the dielectric permittivity is perturbed in the presence of an acoustic wave, optical scattering generates frequency-shifted light. In this paper we consider the inverse problem of recovering the optical properties of this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Francis J. Chung , Jeremy G. Hoskins , John C. Schotland

We consider the inverse scattering problem of retrieving the structural parameters of a stratified medium consisting of dispersive materials, given knowledge of the complex reflection coefficient in a finite frequency range. It is shown…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-23 Johannes Skaar , Magnus W. Haakestad

We study the inverse problem of qualitatively recovering a supported cavity in a thin elastic plate governed by the flexural (biharmonic) wave equation, using far-field pattern measurements. We derive a reciprocity principle and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Carlos Borges , Rafael Ceja Ayala , Peter Nekrasov

Diffraction limit is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information that results from decay of evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics yields no information about an object's subwavelength features. Here…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-24 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

This paper concerns an inverse elastic scattering problem which is to determine a rigid obstacle from time domain scattered field data for a single incident plane wave. By using Helmholtz decomposition, we reduce the initial-boundary value…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Lu Zhao , Heping Dong , Fuming Ma

In this paper, we study both the direct and inverse random source problems associated with the multi-term time-fractional diffusion-wave equation driven by a fractional Brownian motion. Regarding the direct problem, the well-posedness is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Xiaoli Feng , Qiang Yao , Peijun Li , Xu Wang

We consider the wave scattering and inverse scattering in an inhomogeneous medium embedded a homogeneous droplet with a small size, which is modeled by a constant mass density and a small bulk modulus. Based on the Lippmann-Schwinger…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Zhe Wang , Ahcene Ghandriche , Jijun Liu