Imaging of bi-anisotropic periodic structures from electromagnetic near field data

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problem for the three-dimensional Maxwell's equations in bi-anisotropic periodic structures. The inverse scattering problem aims to determine the shape of bi-anisotropic periodic scatterers from electromagnetic near field data at a fixed frequency. The Factorization method is studied as an analytical and numerical tool for solving the inverse problem. We provide a rigorous justification of the Factorization method which results in the unique determination and a fast imaging algorithm for the periodic scatterer. Numerical examples for imaging three-dimensional periodic structures are presented to examine the efficiency of the method.