Inverse obstacle scattering with modulus of the far field pattern as data (Q4356947)

We briefly describe that the modulus of the far field pattern \(u_\infty\) for plane wave incidence is invariant under translations of the scatterer. We derive an explicit expression for the Fréchet derivative of the operator \(G(r)=|u_\infty|^2\) for the case of the unit circle \(r=1\). The representation is in terms of the real cosine and sine coefficients of \(q\) and \(G'(r)q\), and, in particular, the effect of the translation invariance is discussed. Finally, the implementation of frozen regularised Newton and Landweber iterations is described including some numerical examples which illustrate the feasibility of our approach. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0871.00041].