Single measurement experimental data for an inverse medium problem inverted by a multi-frequency globally convergent numerical method

The recently developed globally convergent numerical method for an inverse medium problem with the data resulting from a single measurement, proposed in [23], is tested on experimental data. The data were originally collected in the time domain, whereas the method works in the frequency domain with the multi-frequency data. Due to a significant amount of noise in the measured data, a straightforward application of the Fourier transform to these data does not work. Hence, we develop a heuristic data preprocessing procedure, which is described in the paper. The preprocessed data are used as the input for the inversion algorithm. Numerical results demonstrate a good accuracy of the reconstruction of both refractive indices and locations of targets. (C) 2017 IMACS. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.