ON THE APPLICABILITY OF A BOUNDARY MATCHING TECHNIQUE TO THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CIRCULARLY SYMMETRICAL CYLINDERS FROM SCATTERED H-WAVE

The applicability of a boundary matching technique is presented for re constructing the refractive-index profile of a circularly symmetric cy linder from the measurement of the scattered wave when the cylinder is illuminated by an H-polarized plane wave. The algorithm of reconstruc tion is based on an iterative procedure of matching the scattered wave calculated from a certain refractive-index distribution with the meas ured scattered-wave. The limits of reconstruction for strongly inhomog eneous lossless and lossy cylinders are numerically shown through comp uter simulations under noisy environment, and are compared with those in the E-wave case.