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We use a new method to prove uniqueness theorem for a coefficient inverse scattering problem without the phase information for the 3-D Helmholtz equation. We consider the case when only the modulus of the scattered wave field is measured…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Michael V. Klibanov , Vladimir G. Romanov

In this paper we study an inverse boundary value problem for Maxwell's equations. The goal is to reconstruct perturbations in the refractive index of the medium inside an object from the knowledge of the tangential trace of an electric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Jérémy Heleine

The recovery of anomalies from backscattering far field data is a long-standing open problem in inverse scattering theory. We make a first step in this direction by establishing the unique identifiability of convex impenetrable obstacles…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Jialei Li , Xiaodong Liu , Qingxiang Shi

We consider a fixed angle inverse scattering problem in the presence of a known Riemannian metric. First, assuming a no caustics condition, we study the direct problem by utilizing the progressing wave expansion. Under a symmetry assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Shiqi Ma , Mikko Salo

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of time-harmonic acoustic scattering by an unbounded, locally rough interface which is assumed to be a local perturbation of a plane. The purpose of this paper is to recover the local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Jianliang Li , Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang

The displacement field in highly non uniformly strained crystals is obtained by addition of constraints to an iterative phase retrieval algorithm. These constraints include direct space density uniformity and also constraints to the sign…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Minkevich , M. Gailhanou , J. -S. Micha , B. Charlet , V. Chamard , O. Thomas

This paper is concerned with a nonlinear imaging problem, which aims to reconstruct a locally perturbed, perfectly reflecting, infinite plane from intensity-only (or phaseless) far-field or near-field data. A recursive Newton iteration…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

In this paper, a linear model based on multiple measurement vectors model is proposed to formulate the inverse scattering problem of highly conductive objects at one single frequency. Considering the induced currents which are mostly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Shilong Sun , Bert Jan Kooij , Alexander G. Yarovoy

The inverse scattering problem is of critical importance in a number of fields, including medical imaging, sonar, sensing, non-destructive evaluation, and several others. The problem of interest can vary from detecting the shape to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Doga Dikbayir , Abdel Alsnayyan , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Balasubramaniam Shanker , Hasan Metin Aktulga

We deal with the stability issue for the determination of outgoing time-harmonic acoustic waves from their far-field patterns. We are especially interested in keeping as explicit as possible the dependence of our stability estimates on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-29 Luca Rondi , Mourad Sini

We propose a new method for calculating reflection and transmission coefficients for an arbitrarily polarized electromagnetic plane wave incident on a one-dimensional dielectric medium of finite thickness and with dielectric permittivity…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-27 N. A. Vanyushkin , A. H. Gevorgyan , S. S. Golik

Inverse wave scattering aims at determining the properties of an object using data on how the object scatters incoming waves. In order to collect information, sensors are put in different locations to send and receive waves from each other.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Hanyang Jiang , Yuehaw Khoo , Haizhao Yang

In this article, we consider the inverse problem of determining spatially heterogeneous absorption and diffusion coefficients from a single measurement of the absorbed energy (in the steady-state diffusion approximation of light transfer).…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Elena Beretta , Monika Muszkieta , Wolf Naetar , Otmar Scherzer

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…

It is proved that a general polyhedral perfect conducting obstacle in $\mathbb{R}^3$, possibly consisting of finitely many solid polyhedra, is uniquely determined by the far-field pattern corresponding to a single incident wave. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Hongyu Liu

This article addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering both the wave speed coefficient and an unknown initial condition (acting as the source) for the multidimensional wave equation from a single passive boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Yavar Kian , Hongyu Liu

In 2D acoustic and elastodynamic problems the spatial variability of a constitutive parameter such as the mass density makes it difficult to employ boundary integral and domain integral techniques to solve the forward and inverse wave…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-03-25 Armand Wirgin

We consider the inverse problem of the reconstruction of the spatially distributed dielectric constant $\varepsilon_{r}\left(\mathbf{x}\right), \ \mathbf{x}\in \mathbb{R}^{3}$, which is an unknown coefficient in the Maxwell's equations,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Larisa Beilina , Nguyen Trung Thành , Michael V. Klibanov , John Bondestam Malmberg

We consider inverse obstacle and transmission scattering problems where the source of the incident waves is located on a smooth closed surface that is a boundary of a domain located outside of the obstacle/inhomogeneity of the media. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Evgeny Lakshtanov , Boris Vainberg

This paper addresses the inverse scattering problem of a random potential associated with the polyharmonic wave equation in two and three dimensions. The random potential is represented as a centered complex-valued generalized microlocally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Jianliang Li , Peijun Li , Xu Wang , Guanlin Yang