Unified treatment of exact and approximate scalar electromagnetic wave scattering
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PhysRevE.106.045301.pdf
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Author(s)
Pang, Subeen
Barbastathis, George
Date Issued
2022
Journal
Physical Review E
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Citation
Pang, Subeen and Barbastathis, George. 2022. "Unified treatment of exact and approximate scalar electromagnetic wave scattering." Physical Review E, 106 (4).
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Final published version
Abstract
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 scattering conditions.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVE.106.045301
