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A 3-D inverse medium problem in the frequency domain is considered. Another name for this problem is Coefficient Inverse Problem. The goal is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from scattering data. Potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Michael V. Klibanov , Hui Liu , Loc H. Nguyen

We present a reduced basis approach to solve the convected Helmholtz equation with several physical parameters. Physical parameters characterize the aeroacoustic wave propagation in terms of the wave and Mach numbers. We compute solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Myoungnyoun Kim , Imbo Sim

Optical approaches for wavefront shaping traditionally rely on phase modulation through holographic techniques. Shaping the phase determines a wave's diffraction and hence its intensity distribution in space. We instead show that shaping…

This work concerns the analysis of wave propagation in random media. Our medium of interest is sea ice, which is a composite of a pure ice background and randomly located inclusions of brine and air. From a pulse emitted by a source above…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Wenjia Jing , Olivier Pinaud

Quantum algorithms can potentially overcome the boundary of computationally hard problems. One of the cornerstones in modern optics is the beam propagation algorithm, facilitating the calculation of how waves with a particular dispersion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Chanaprom Cholsuk , Siavash Davani , Lorcan O. Conlon , Tobias Vogl , Falk Eilenberger

A natural medium for wave propagation comprises a coupled bounded heterogeneous region and an unbounded homogeneous free-space. Frequency-domain wave propagation models in the medium, such as the variable coefficient Helmholtz equation,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Victor Dominguez , Mahadevan Ganesh , Francisco-Javier Sayas

We propose a physics-informed neural network as the forward model for tomographic reconstructions of biological samples. We demonstrate that by training this network with the Helmholtz equation as a physical loss, we can predict the…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-29 Amirhossein Saba , Carlo Gigli , Ahmed B. Ayoub , Demetri Psaltis

Solving the wave equation is essential to seismic imaging and inversion. The numerical solution of the Helmholtz equation, fundamental to this process, often encounters significant computational and memory challenges. We propose an…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Xinquan Huang , Tariq Alkhalifah

Diffraction tomography is an inverse scattering technique used to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the material properties of a weakly scattering object. The object is exposed to radiation, typically light or ultrasound, and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Clemens Kirisits , Noemi Naujoks , Otmar Scherzer

This paper concerns the quantitative step of the medical imaging modality Thermo-acoustic Tomography (TAT). We model the radiation propagation by a system of Maxwell's equations. We show that the index of refraction of light and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Guillaume Bal , Ting Zhou

This work describes a novel image analysis approach to characterize the uniformity of objects in agglomerates by using the propagation of normal wavefronts. The problem of width uniformity is discussed and its importance for the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Luciano da F. Costa , Giancarlo Mutinari , David Schubert

Uplink pre-compensation in ground-to-satellite optical links remains a problem, with an appropriate measurement of the wavefront error in the uplink path often not being available. We present a method that uses successive measurements of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-12 Alex Frost , Nicolas Maron , Shane Walsh , Benjamin Dix-Matthews , Sascha Schediwy , Michael Hart

Consider the inverse scattering of time-harmonic acoustic scattering by an infinite rough surface which is supposed to be a local perturbation of a plane. A novel version of reverse time migration (RTM) is proposed to reconstruct the shape…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Jianliang Li , Hao Wu , Jiaqing Yang

The image degradation produced by atmospheric turbulence and optical aberrations is usually alleviated using post-facto image reconstruction techniques, even when observing with adaptive optics systems. These techniques rely on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Asensio Ramos , A. Lopez Ariste

Superpositions of plane waves are known to approximate well the solutions of the Helmholtz equation. Their use in discretizations is typical of Trefftz methods for Helmholtz problems, aiming to achieve high accuracy with a small number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Emile Parolin , Daan Huybrechs , Andrea Moiola

We generalize the invariant imbedding theory of the wave propagation and derive new invariant imbedding equations for the propagation of arbitrary number of coupled waves of any kind in arbitrarily-inhomogeneous stratified media, where the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kihong Kim , Dong-Hun Lee , H. Lim

This paper concerns diffraction-tomographic reconstruction of an object characterized by its scattering potential. We establish a rigorous generalization of the Fourier diffraction theorem in arbitrary dimension, giving a precise relation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Clemens Kirisits , Michael Quellmalz , Eric Setterqvist

We consider the reconstruction of a two-dimensional discrete image from a set of tomographic measurements corresponding to the Radon projection. Assuming that the image has a structure where neighbouring pixels have a larger probability to…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Emmanuelle Gouillart , Florent Krzakala , Marc Mezard , Lenka Zdeborová

The Foldy-Wouthuysen iterative diagonalization technique is applied to the Helmholtz equation to obtain a Hamiltonian description of the propagation of a monochromatic quasiparaxial light beam through a system in which the refractive index…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sameen Ahmed Khan , Ramaswamy Jagannathan , Rajiah Simon

We propose a new compressive imaging method for reconstructing 2D or 3D objects from their scattered wave-field measurements. Our method relies on a novel, nonlinear measurement model that can account for the multiple scattering phenomenon,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Hsiou-Yuan Liu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Dehong Liu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos