Uniqueness in inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering with phaseless near-field data at a fixed frequency

DOI10.3934/IPI.2020023arXiv1906.05116MaRDI QIDQ6320394FDOQ6320394

Authors: Xiaoxu Xu, Bo Zhang, Haiwen Zhang 

Publication date: 3 June 2019

Abstract: This paper is concerned with uniqueness results in inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering problems with phaseless total-field data at a fixed frequency. Motivated by our previous work ({em SIAM J. Appl. Math. �f78} (2018), 1737-1753), where uniqueness results were proved for inverse acoustic scattering with phaseless far-field data generated by superpositions of two plane waves as the incident waves at a fixed frequency, in this paper, we use superpositions of two point sources as the incident fields at a fixed frequency and measure the modulus of the acoustic total-field (called phaseless acoustic near-field data) on two spheres enclosing the scatterers generated by such incident fields on the two spheres. Based on this idea, we prove that the impenetrable bounded obstacle or the index of refraction of an inhomogeneous medium can be uniquely determined from the phaseless acoustic near-field data at a fixed frequency. Moreover, the idea is also extended to the electromagnetic case, and it is proved that the impenetrable bounded obstacle or the index of refraction of an inhomogeneous medium can be uniquely determined by the phaseless electric near-field data at a fixed frequency, that is, the modulus of the tangential component with the orientations $mathbf{e}_{p}hi$ and $mathbf{e}_{h}eta$, respectively, of the electric total-field measured on a sphere enclosing the scatters and generated by superpositions of two electric dipoles at a fixed frequency located on the measurement sphere and another bigger sphere with the polarization vectors $mathbf{e}_{p}hi$ and $mathbf{e}_{h}eta$, respectively. As far as we know, this is the first uniqueness result for three-dimensional inverse electromagnetic scattering with phaseless near-field data.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Wave scattering in solid mechanics (74J20) Inverse problems (including inverse scattering) in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A46) Composite media; random media in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A48)

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