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Motivated by non-destructive testing of optical fiber, we consider the problem of determining the index of refraction of a two-dimensional medium from magnitude of the total field resulting from known incident plane waves at a fixed…

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Consider time-harmonic acoustic scattering from a bounded penetrable obstacle $D\subset \mathbb R^N$ embedded in a homogeneous background medium. The index of refraction characterizing the material inside $D$ is supposed to be H\"older…

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This paper is concerned with uniqueness for reconstructing a periodic inhomogeneous medium covered on a perfectly conducting plate. We deal with the problem in the frame of time-harmonic Maxwell systems without TE or TM polarization. An…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-17 Guanghui Hu , Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang

In this paper, we consider inverse time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic scattering from locally perturbed rough surfaces in three dimensions. The scattering interface is supposed to be the graph of a Lipschitz continuous function with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Yu Zhao , Guanghui Hu , Baoqiang Yan

This paper considers the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic plane waves by a bounded, inhomogeneous, penetrable obstacle with embedded objects inside. A new method is proposed to prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

This paper is concerned with the uniqueness in inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering with phaseless near-field data generated by superpositions of two incident plane waves at a fixed frequency. It can be proved that the unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Xiaoxu Xu

The diffraction of a plane wave by a transversely inhomogeneous isotropic nonmagnetic linearly polarized dielectric layer filled with a Kerr-type nonlinear medium is considered. The analytical and numerical solution techniques are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-13 Yury Shestopalov , Vasil Yatsyk

We obtain in TM polarization an analytical expression of the scattering matrix of one infinitely conducting metallic lamellar grating with subwavelength slits. The theory is based on the Monomode Modal Method which consists in considering…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-19 Philippe Boyer , Daniel Van Labeke

In this paper, we consider the inverse spectral problem of determining the spherically symmetric refractive index in a bounded spherical region of radius $b$. Instead of the usual case of the refractive index $\rho\in W^2_2$, by using…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Tao Liu , Kang Lyu , Guangsheng Wei , Chuan-Fu Yang

This article investigates the unique determination of a radial refractive index n from spectral data. First, we demonstrate that for piecewise twice continuously differentiable functions, n is not uniquely determined by the special…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Kewen Bu , Youjun Deng , Yan Jiang , Kai Zhang

We consider the scattering problem governed by the Helmholtz equation with inhomogeneity in both `conductivity' in the divergence form and `potential' in the lower order term. The support of the inhomogeneity is assumed to contain a convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Fioralba Cakoni , Jingni Xiao

This paper is concerned with uniqueness in inverse acoustic scattering with phaseless far-field data at a fixed frequency. In our previous work ({\em SIAM J. Appl. Math. \bf78} (2018), 1737-1753), by utilizing spectral properties of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Xiaoxu Xu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-16 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

The $PT$-symmetric optical grating with index profile $e^{i\beta z}$ has been shown to have the interesting property of being essentially invisible for light incident from one side, while possessing greatly enhanced reflection at a…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-09 H. F. Jones , M. Kulishov

We present an extensive formulation of the inverse grating problem for exural waves, in which the energy of each diffracted mode is selected and the grating configuration is then obtained by solving a linear system of equations. The grating…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Pawel Packo , Andrew N. Norris , Daniel Torrent

A problem of scattering by a Dirichlet right angle on a discrete square lattice is studied. The waves are governed by a discrete Helmholtz equation. The solution is looked for in the form of the Sommerfeld integral. The Sommerfeld…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 A. V. Shanin , A. I. Korolkov

This paper concerns the frequency domain problem of diffraction of a plane wave incident on an infinite right-angled wedge on which impedance (absorbing) boundary conditions are imposed. It is demonstrated that the exact…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-22 David P. Hewett , Aaron Morris

It is proved that an inhomogeneous medium whose boundary contains a weakly singular point of arbitrary order scatters every incoming wave. Similarly, a compactly supported source term with weakly singular points on the boundary always…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Long Li , Guanghui Hu , Jiansheng Yang

We consider two formally determined inverse problems for the wave equation in more than one space dimension. Motivated by the fixed angle inverse scattering problem, we show that a compactly supported potential is uniquely determined by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Rakesh , Mikko Salo

Grazing incidence waves incident onto a surface will almost always be completely reflected. Here, we focus on removing reflection at grazing incidence, adopting the factorisation method from quantum mechanics and applying it to the…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-10 Dean A. Patient , Simon A. R. Horsley