Inverse scattering problem for the Maxwell's equations

DOI10.1051/MMNP/20138115MaRDI QIDQ4911327zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. G. Ramm

Publication date 14 March 2013

Published in Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5987

zbMATH Keywords

Fredholm integral equationsinverse scattering problemsMaxwell's equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integral representations of solutions to PDEs (35C15) Maxwell equations (35Q61) Fredholm integral equations (45B05) Inverse problems (including inverse scattering) in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A46)

Abstract: Inverse scattering problem is discussed for the Maxwell's equations. A reduction of the Maxwell's system to a new Fredholm second-kind integral equation with a {it scalar weakly singular kernel} is given for electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering. This equation allows one to derive a formula for the scattering amplitude in which only a scalar function is present. If this function is small (an assumption that validates a Born-type approximation), then formulas for the solution to the inverse problem are obtained from the scattering data: the complex permittivity $e{p}^{\prime }(x)$ in a bounded region $Dsubset{R}^3$ is found from the scattering amplitude $$ known for a fixed $k=omegasqrte{p}_{0}m{u}_0>0$ and all $$, where $S^2$ is the unit sphere in $R^3$, $e{p}_0$ and $m{u}_0$ are constant permittivity and magnetic permeability in the exterior region $D^{\prime }=R^{3}setminusD$. The {it novel points} in this paper include: i) A reduction of the inverse problem for {it vector EM waves} to a {it vector integral equation with scalar kernel} without any symmetry assumptions on the scatterer, ii) A derivation of the {it scalar integral equation} of the first kind for solving the inverse scattering problem, and iii) Presenting formulas for solving this scalar integral equation. The problem of solving this integral equation is an ill-posed one. A method for a stable solution of this problem is given.

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