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This paper presents a direct solution technique for the scattering of time-harmonic waves from a bounded region of the plane in which the wavenumber varies smoothly in space.The method constructs the interior Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) map…

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We consider an inverse scattering problem for time-harmonic acoustic or electromagnetic waves. The goal is to localize several small penetrable objects embedded inside an otherwise homogeneous background medium from observations of far…

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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

Imaging through opaque, highly scattering walls is a long sought after capability with potential applications in a variety of fields. The use of wavefront shaping to compensate for scattering has brought a renewed interest as a potential…

We propose a new approach to linear ill-posed inverse problems. Our algorithm alternates between enforcing two constraints: the measurements and the statistical correlation structure in some transformed space. We use a non-linear multiscale…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ivan Dokmanić , Joan Bruna , Stéphane Mallat , Maarten de Hoop

This paper discusses a fast direct solver using boundary integral equations for Helmholtz transmission problems involving multiple inclusions in two dimensions. Efficiently addressing scattering problems in the presence of numerous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Yasuhiro Matsumoto

In this work we consider the inverse elastic scattering problem by an inclusion in two dimensions. The elastic inclusion is placed in an isotropic homogeneous elastic medium. The inverse problem, using the third Betti's formula (direct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Roman Chapko , Drossos Gintides , Leonidas Mindrinos

In this paper, an efficient iterative method is proposed for solving multiple scattering problem in locally inhomogeneous media. The key idea is to enclose the inhomogeneity of the media by well separated artificial boundaries and then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Ziqing Xie , Rui Zhang , Bo Wang , Li-lian Wang

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

The acoustic inverse obstacle scattering problem consists of determining the shape of a domain from measurements of the scattered far field due to some set of incident fields (probes). For a penetrable object with known sound speed, this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Carlos Borges , Manas Rachh , Leslie Greengard

Full-field imaging through scattering media is fraught with many challenges. Despite many achievements in recent years, current imaging methods are too slow to deal with fast dynamics that occur for example in biomedical imaging. Here we…

Scalar diffraction calculations such as the angular spectrum method (ASM) and Fresnel diffraction, are widely used in the research fields of optics, X-rays, electron beams, and ultrasonics. It is possible to accelerate the calculation using…

In this article, we study the inverse scattering problem for the nonlinear fractional Helmholtz equation with cubic nonlinearity in three dimensions, where we recover a compactly supported potential from scattering amplitude.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Saumyajit Das , Susovan Pramanik

While scattered light conveys most of the information we perceive, scattering may also distort that information before it reaches our detectors. The problem is acute in many applications, such as in high-resolution microscopy of biological…

Strong scattering medium brings great difficulties to optical imaging, which is also a problem in medical imaging and many other fields. Optical memory effect makes it possible to image through strong random scattering medium. However, this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Enlai Guo , Shuo Zhu , Yan Sun , Lianfa Bai , Jing Han

Consider a time-harmonic elastic point source incident on a bounded obstacle which is embedded in an open space filled with a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium. This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of recovering the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Chun Liu , Guanghui Hu , Tao Yin , Bo Zhang

Optical-resolution fluorescence imaging through and within complex samples presents a significant challenge due to random light scattering, with substantial implications across multiple fields. While significant advancements in coherent…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-27 Gil Weinberg , Elad Sunray , Ori Katz

We consider an inverse elastic scattering problem of simultaneously reconstructing a rigid obstacle and the excitation sources using near-field measurements. A two-phase numerical method is proposed to achieve the co-inversion of multiple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Hongyu Liu , Deyue Zhang

Optical imaging through scattering media is a fundamental challenge in many applications. Recently, substantial breakthroughs such as imaging through biological tissues and looking around corners have been obtained by the use of…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-09 Tomer Yeminy , Ori Katz

A simple method for some class of inverse obstacle scattering problems is introduced. The observation data are given by a wave field measured on a known surface surrounding unknown obstacles over a finite time interval. The wave is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Masaru Ikehata