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INVERSE SOURCE PROBLEM FOR ACOUSTICALLY-MODULATED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
Wei Li1, John C Schotland2, Yang Yang3
1Department of Mathematical Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60604.
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We propose a method to reconstruct the electrical current density from acoustically-modulated boundary measurements of time-harmonic electromagnetic fields. We show that the current can be uniquely reconstructed with Lipschitz stability. We also report numerical simulations to illustrate the analytical results.
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