A reduction of the Maxwell's system to a Fredholm second-kind integral equation with weakly singular kernel is given for electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering by one and many small bodies. This equation is solved asymptotically as the characteristic size of the bodies tends to zero. The technique developed is used for solving the many-body EM wave scattering problem by rigorously reducing it to solving linear algebraic systems, completely bypassing the usage of integral equations. An equation is derived for the effective field in the medium, in which many small particles are embedded. A method for creating a desired refraction coefficient is outlined.
A new proof is given of the existence of the solution to electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering problem for an impedance body of an arbitrary shape. The proof is based on the elliptic systems theory and elliptic estimates for the solutions of such systems.
A theory of electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering by many small particles of an arbitrary shape is developed. The particles are perfectly conducting or impedance. For a small impedance particle of an arbitrary shape an explicit analytical formula is derived for the scattering amplitude. The formula holds as $a\to 0$, where $a$ is a characteristic size of the small particle and the wavelength is arbitrary but fixed. The scattering amplitude for a small impedance particle is shown to be proportional to $a^{2-κ}$, where $κ\in [0,1)$ is a parameter which can be chosen by an experimenter as he/she w…
We present a new method for the analysis of electromagnetic scattering from homogeneous penetrable bodies. Our approach is based on a reformulation of the governing Maxwell equations in terms of two uncoupled vector Helmholtz systems: one for the electric feld and one for the magnetic field. This permits the derivation of resonance-free Fredholm equations of the second kind that are stable at all frequencies, insensitive to the genus of the scatterers, and invertible for all passive materials including those with negative permittivities or permeabilities. We refer to these as decoupled field i…
Inverse Elastic Scattering for Multiscale Rigid Bodies with A Single Far-field Pattern
Weierstrass Institute（韦伊尔斯特拉斯研究所）；South University of Science and Technology of China（南方科技大学）；University of North Carolina, Charlotte（北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校）；University of Graz（格拉茨大学）
We consider transformation-optics based cloaking in acoustic and electromagnetic scattering. The blueprints for an ideal cloak use singular acoustic and electromagnetic materials, posing server difficulties to both theoretical analysis and practical fabrication. In order to avoid the singular structures, various regularized approximate cloaking schemes have been developed. We survey these developments in this paper. We also propose some challenging issues for further investigation.
Under conditions of strong scattering, a dilemma often arises regarding the best numerical method to use. Main competitors are the Born series, the Beam Propagation Method, and direct solution of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation. However, analytical relationships between the three methods have not yet, to our knowledge, been explicitly stated. Here, we bridge this gap in the literature. In addition to overall insight about aspects of optical scattering that are best numerically captured by each method, our approach allows us to derive approximate error bounds to be expected under various scatte…
We consider scattering theory of the Laplace Beltrami operator on differential forms on a Riemannian manifold that is Euclidean near infinity. Allowing for compact boundaries of low regularity we prove a Birman-Krein formula on the space of co-closed differential forms. In the case of dimension three this reduces to a Birman-Krein formula in Maxwell scattering.
We perform quantitative spectral analysis on the Born equation, an integral equation for electromagnetic scattering that descends from the Maxwell equations. We establish norm bounds for the Green operator associated with the Born equation, thereby providing numerical tools for error estimates of the Born approximation to light scattering problems.
We carry out quantitative studies on the Green operator $ \hat{\mathscr G}$ associated with the Born equation, an integral equation that models electromagnetic scattering, building the strong stability of the evolution semigroup $\{\exp(-iτ\hat{\mathscr G})|τ\geq0\} $ on polynomial compactness and the Arendt-Batty-Lyubich-Vũ theorem. The strongly-stable evolution semigroup inspires our proposal of a non-perturbative method to solve the light scattering problem and improve the Born approximation.
