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Fast imaging of electromagnetic scatterers by a two-stage multilevel sampling method

• Some effective imaging schemes for inverse scattering problems were recently proposed in [13,14] for locating multiple multiscale electromagnetic (EM) scatterers, namely a combination of components of possible small size and regular size compared to the detecting EM wavelength. In this paper, instead of using a single far-field measurement, we relax the assumption of one fixed frequency to multiple ones, and develop efficient numerical techniques to speed up those imaging schemes by adopting multi-frequency and Multilevel ideas in a two-stage manner. Numerical tests are presented to demonstrate the efficiency and the salient features of the proposed fast imaging scheme.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 78A46; Secondary: 35Q60.

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