The no response test for the reconstruction of polyhedral objects in electromagnetics (Q975637)

The paper deals with the problem of reconstruction of a 3-dimensional obstacle using the response (far-field measurements) on time-harmonic plane incident electromagnetic waves impinging the obstacle, the total electric field on the obstacle satisfying the perfect conductor boundary condition. The authors adopt to the electromagnetic case the No Response Test suggested earlier in acoustics. The idea of the test is to probe a region in space with waves which are small on some test domain and thus do not generate a response when the scatterer is inside of this test domain. Actually, the test checks analytic continuability of a time-harmonic field from the far-field pattern into the complement of a non-vibrating test domain. It is shown that the convex hull of a polyhedral is uniquely determined by using two incident waves having the same direction and two linearly independent directions of polarization. Based on this uniqueness result, a reconstruction procedure is proposed and tested numerically.