INFLUENCE OF NOISE ON SUBWAVELENGTH IMAGING OF TWO CLOSE SCATTERERS USING TIME REVERSAL METHOD: THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS

Although classical imaging is limited by the Rayleigh criterion, it has been demonstrated that subwavelength imaging of two point-like scatterers can be achieved with probing sensors arrays, even if the scatterers are located in the far fleld of the sensors. However, the role of noise is crucial to determine the resolution limit. This paper proposes a quantitative study of the in∞uence of noise on the subwavelength resolution obtained with the DORT-MUSIC method. The DORT method, French acronym for decomposition of the time reversal operator, consists in studying the invariants of the time reversal operator. The method is combined here with the estimator MUSIC (MUltiple SIgnal Classiflcation) to detect and image two close metallic wires. The microwaves measurements are performed between 2.6GHz and 4GHz. Two wires of ‚=100 diameters separated by ‚=6 are imaged and separated experimentally. To interpret this result in

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