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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…

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We study the fixed angle inverse scattering problem of determining a sound speed from scattering measurements corresponding to a single incident wave. The main result shows that a sound speed close to constant can be stably determined by…

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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 this work, we consider the inverse electromagnetic scattering problem for a magneto-dielectric cylinder covering an impedance cylinder of arbitrary shape. We solve it by introducing a divide-and-conquer framework using specially designed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Leonidas Mindrinos , Nikolaos Pallikarakis , Nikolaos L Tsitsas

This paper is concerned with the factorization method with a single far-field pattern to recover an arbitrary convex polygonal scatterer/source in linear elasticity. The approach also applies to the compressional (resp. shear) part of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Guanqiu Ma , Guanghui Hu

This work is concerned with an inverse elastic scattering problem of identifying the unknown rigid obstacle embedded in an open space filled with a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium. A Newton-type iteration method relying on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Hongyu Liu , Deyue Zhang

We introduce an arbitrary order, computationally efficient method to smooth corners on curves in the plane, as well as edges and vertices on surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$. The method is local, only modifying the original surface in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Charles L. Epstein , Michael O'Neil

Scattering theory has had a major roll in twentieth century mathematical physics. Mathematical modeling and algorithms of direct,- and inverse electromagnetic scattering formulation due to biological tissues are investigated. The algorithms…

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We present a computational framework for efficient optimization-based "inverse design" of large-area "metasurfaces" (subwavelength-patterned surfaces) for applications such as multi-wavelength and multi-angle optimizations, and…

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

In this paper, we consider inverse shape problems coming from diffuse optical tomography and inverse scattering. In both problems, our goal is to reconstruct small volume interior regions from measured data on the exterior surface of an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-13 Govanni Granados , Isaac Harris

An inverse scattering problem is formulated for reconstructing optical properties of biological tissues. A recursive linearization algorithm is used to solve the inverse scattering problem. We employed the idea of finite element boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Ying Li

Consider the elastic scattering of a plane or point incident wave by an unbounded and rigid rough surface. The angular spectrum representation (ASR) for the time-harmonic Navier equation is derived in three dimensions. The ASR is utilized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Guanghui Hu , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

We consider a linearized inverse scattering problem for elastic waves. We prove that a fully anisotropic perturbation of the elastic parameters around an isotropic and homogeneous reference can be uniquely determined by (single-)scattered…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Matti Lassas , Shiqi Ma , Lauri Oksanen , Mikko Salo , Jian Zhai

In this paper we study Love waves in a layered, elastic half-space. We first address the direct problem and we characterize the existence of Love waves through the dispersion relation. We then address the inverse problem and we show how to…

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We propose a scheme for imaging periodic surfaces using a superlens. By employing an inverse scattering model and the transformed field expansion method, we derive an approximate reconstruction formula for the surface profile, assuming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Peijun Li , Yuliang Wang

This paper considers an inverse shape problem for recovering an unknown clamped obstacle in two dimensions from far--field measurements generated by a single incident wave or just a few incident waves for the biharmonic (flexural) wave…

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Image reconstruction under multiple light scattering is crucial in a number of applications such as diffraction tomography. The reconstruction problem is often formulated as a nonconvex optimization, where a nonlinear measurement model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Yu Sun , Zhihao Xia , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

We propose an inverse scattering scheme of recovering a polyhedral obstacle in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n=2,3$, by only a few high-frequency acoustic backscattering measurements. The obstacle could be sound-soft or sound-hard. It is shown that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-05 Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu

This work is concerned with an inverse scattering problem of determining unknown scatterers from time-dependent acoustic measurements. A novel time-domain direct sampling method is developed to efficiently determine both the locations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Yukun Guo , Hongjie Li , Xianchao Wang