A Kalman filter solution of the inverse scattering problem with a rational reflection coefficient (Q1071165)

This paper presents a new inverse scattering method for reconstructing the reflectivity function of symmetric two-component wave equations, or the potential of a Schrödinger equation, when the reflection coefficient is rational. This method relies on the so called Chandrasekhar equations which implement the Kalman filter associated to the estimation problem for a stationary state-space model. These equations are derived by using first a general layer-stripping principle to obtain some differential equations for reconstructing an arbitrary scattering medium, and by specializing these recursions to the case when the probing waves have a state-space model.