This paper presents a novel view of the impact of electron collision off-axis positions on the dynamic properties and relativistic nonlinear Thomson inverse scattering of excited electrons within tightly focused, circ...This paper presents a novel view of the impact of electron collision off-axis positions on the dynamic properties and relativistic nonlinear Thomson inverse scattering of excited electrons within tightly focused, circularly polarized laser pulses of varying intensities. We examine the effects of the transverse ponderomotive force, specifically how the deviation angle and speed of electron motion are affected by the initial off-axis position of the electron and the peak amplitude of the laser pulse. When the laser pulse intensity is low, an increase in the electron's initial off-axis distance results in reduced spatial radiation power, improved collimation, super-continuum phenomena generation, red-shifting of the spectrum's harmonic peak, and significant symmetry in the radiation radial direction. However, in contradiction to conventional understandings,when the laser pulse intensity is relatively high, the properties of the relativistic nonlinear Thomson inverse scattering of the electron deviate from the central axis, changing direction in opposition to the aforementioned effects. After reaching a peak, these properties then shift again, aligning with the previous direction. The complex interplay of these effects suggests a greater nuance and intricacy in the relationship between laser pulse intensity, electron position, and scattering properties than previously thought.展开更多
A novel method based on the relevance vector machine(RVM) for the inverse scattering problem is presented in this paper.The nonlinearity and the ill-posedness inherent in this problem are simultaneously considered.T...A novel method based on the relevance vector machine(RVM) for the inverse scattering problem is presented in this paper.The nonlinearity and the ill-posedness inherent in this problem are simultaneously considered.The nonlinearity is embodied in the relation between the scattered field and the target property,which can be obtained through the RVM training process.Besides,rather than utilizing regularization,the ill-posed nature of the inversion is naturally accounted for because the RVM can produce a probabilistic output.Simulation results reveal that the proposed RVM-based approach can provide comparative performances in terms of accuracy,convergence,robustness,generalization,and improved performance in terms of sparse property in comparison with the support vector machine(SVM) based approach.展开更多
N-soliton solutions of the hierarchy of non-isospectral mKdV equation with self-consistent sources andthe hierarchy of non-isospectral sine-Gordon equation with self-consistent sources are obtained via the inverse sca...N-soliton solutions of the hierarchy of non-isospectral mKdV equation with self-consistent sources andthe hierarchy of non-isospectral sine-Gordon equation with self-consistent sources are obtained via the inverse scatteringtransform.展开更多
One of the basic problems about the inverse scattering transform for solving a completely integrable nonlinear evolutions equation is to demonstrate that the Jost solutions obtained from the inverse scattering equatio...One of the basic problems about the inverse scattering transform for solving a completely integrable nonlinear evolutions equation is to demonstrate that the Jost solutions obtained from the inverse scattering equations of Cauchy integral satisfy the Lax equations. Such a basic problem still exists in the procedure of deriving the dark soliton solutions of the NLS equation in normal dispersion with non-vanishing boundary conditions through the inverse scattering transform. In this paper, a pair of Jost solutions with same analytic properties are composed to be a 2 × 2 matrix and then another pair are introduced to be its right inverse confirmed by the Liouville theorem. As they are both 2 × 2 matrices, the right inverse should be the left inverse too, based upon which it is not difficult to show that these Jost solutions satisfy both the first and second Lax equations. As a result of compatibility condition, the dark soliton solutions definitely satisfy the NLS equation in normal dispersion with non-vanishing boundary conditions.展开更多
This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is fir...This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using the integral equation method. We then proceed to establish two tools that play important roles for the inverse problem: one is a mixed reciprocity relation and the other is a priori estimates of the solution on some part of the interfaces between the layered media. For the inverse problem, we prove in this paper that both the penetrable interfaces and the possible inside inhomogeneity can be uniquely determined from a knowledge of the far field pattern for incident plane waves.展开更多
Since the Jost solutions of the DNLS equation does not tend to the free Jost solutioins as |λ|→∞, the usual inverse scattering transform (IST) must be revised. Beside the Kaup and Newell's approach, we propose...Since the Jost solutions of the DNLS equation does not tend to the free Jost solutioins as |λ|→∞, the usual inverse scattering transform (IST) must be revised. Beside the Kaup and Newell's approach, we propose a simple revision in constructing the equations of IST, where the usual Zakharov-Shabat kern is revised by multiplying λ^-2 or λ^-1. To justify the revision we show that the Jost solutions obtained do satisfy the pair of compatibility equations.展开更多
The multi-parameter inversion of elastic wave equation in a half-space within the Born approximation is studied. A method of simultaneously reconstructing the configurations of the density and Lame parameters of the m...The multi-parameter inversion of elastic wave equation in a half-space within the Born approximation is studied. A method of simultaneously reconstructing the configurations of the density and Lame parameters of the medium was presented by use of a wideband measuring schemes in which transmitters and receivers scan over the half-space surface. It is shown that the reflected waves generated by horizontal and vertical pulses on the surface can be decomposed into P-->P, P-->S, S-->P and S-->S types of scattering components. As is expected, these components contain enough information for desired restruction. From them the density and two Lame parameters are determined explicitly, and the results obtained have the form of filtered back-propagation as in the acoustic diffraction tomography.展开更多
Using the integral representation of the Jost solution,we deduce some conditions as the kernel functionN(x,y,t)if the Jost solution satisfies the two Lax equations.Then we verify the multi-soliton solution of NLS equa...Using the integral representation of the Jost solution,we deduce some conditions as the kernel functionN(x,y,t)if the Jost solution satisfies the two Lax equations.Then we verify the multi-soliton solution of NLS equationwith non-vanishing boundary conditions if we prove that these conditions can be demonstrated by the GLM equation,which determines the kernel function N(x,y,t)in according to the inverse scattering method.展开更多
A Hauser-Ernst-type extended hyperbolic complex linear system given in our previous paper [Gao Y J 2004 Chin. Phys. 13 602] is slightly modified and used to develop a new inverse scattering method for the stationary a...A Hauser-Ernst-type extended hyperbolic complex linear system given in our previous paper [Gao Y J 2004 Chin. Phys. 13 602] is slightly modified and used to develop a new inverse scattering method for the stationary axisymmetric Einstein-Maxwell theory with multiple Abelian gauge fields. The reduction procedures in this inverse scattering method are found to be fairly simple, which makes the inverse scattering method be fine and effective in practical application. As an example, a concrete family of soliton solutions for the considered theory is obtained.展开更多
We consider the inverse problem to determine the shape of a open cavity embedded in the infinite ground plane from knowledge of the far-field pattern of the scattering of TM polarization. For its approximate solution ...We consider the inverse problem to determine the shape of a open cavity embedded in the infinite ground plane from knowledge of the far-field pattern of the scattering of TM polarization. For its approximate solution we propose a regularized Newton iteration scheme. For a foundation of Newton type methods we establish the Fr^chet differentiability of solution to the scattering problem with respect to the boundary of the cavity. Some numerical examples of the feasibility of the method are presented.展开更多
Fourier transform is a basis of the analysis. This paper presents a kind ofmethod of minimum sampling data determined profile of the inverted object ininverse scattering.
We consider the inverse electromagnetic scattering problem of determining the shape of a perfectly conducting core inside a penetrable chiral body. We prove the well-posedness of the corresponding direct scattering pr...We consider the inverse electromagnetic scattering problem of determining the shape of a perfectly conducting core inside a penetrable chiral body. We prove the well-posedness of the corresponding direct scattering problem by the variational method. We focus on a uniqueness result for the inverse scattering problem that is under what conditions an obstacle can be identified by the knowledge of the electric far-field pattern corresponding to all time-harmonic incident planes waves with a fixed wave number. To this end, we establish a chiral mixed reciprocity relation that connects the electric far-field pattern of a spherical wave with the scattered field of a plane wave.展开更多
We study wave splitting procedures for acoustic or electromagnetic scattering problems. The idea of these procedures is to split some scattered field into a sum of fields coming from different spatial regions such tha...We study wave splitting procedures for acoustic or electromagnetic scattering problems. The idea of these procedures is to split some scattered field into a sum of fields coming from different spatial regions such that this information can be used either for inversion algo- rithms or for active noise control. Splitting algorithms can be based on general boundary layer potential representation or Green's representation formula. We will prove the unique decomposition of scattered wave outside the specified reference domain G and the unique decomposition of far-field pattern with respect to different reference domain G. Further, we employ the splitting technique for field reconstruction for a scatterer with two or more separate components, by combining it with the point source method for wave recovery. Us-ing the decomposition of scattered wave as well as its far-field pattern, the wave splitting procedure proposed in this paper gives an efficient way to the computation of scattered wave near the obstacle, from which the multiple obstacles which cause the far-field pattern can be reconstructed separately. This considerably extends the range of the decomposition methods in the area of inverse scattering. Finally, we will provide numerical examples to demonstrate the feasibility of the splitting method.展开更多
A newly revised inverse scattering transform(IST) for the derivative nonlinear Schrdinger(DNLS+) equation with non-vanishing boundary condition(NVBC) and normal group velocity dispersion is proposed by introduc...A newly revised inverse scattering transform(IST) for the derivative nonlinear Schrdinger(DNLS+) equation with non-vanishing boundary condition(NVBC) and normal group velocity dispersion is proposed by introducing a suitable affine parameter in Zakharov-Shabat integral kern.The explicit breather-type one-soliton solution,which can reproduce one pure soliton at the de-generate case and one bright soliton solution at the limit of van-ishing boundary,has been derived to verify the validity of the revised IST.展开更多
This paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problems for Schrdinger equations with compactly supported potentials.For purpose of reconstructing the support of the potential,we derive a factorization of the sca...This paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problems for Schrdinger equations with compactly supported potentials.For purpose of reconstructing the support of the potential,we derive a factorization of the scattering amplitude operator A and prove that the ranges of (A* A) ^1/4 and G which maps more general incident fields than plane waves into the scattering amplitude coincide.As an application we characterize the support of the potential using only the spectral data of the operator A.展开更多
In this paper, based on the robust inverse scattering method, we construct two kinds of solutions to the focusing modified Korteweg–de Vries equation. One is the classical soliton solution under the zero background c...In this paper, based on the robust inverse scattering method, we construct two kinds of solutions to the focusing modified Korteweg–de Vries equation. One is the classical soliton solution under the zero background condition and the other one is given through the nonzero background.Especially, for the nonzero background case, we choose a special spectral parameter such that the nonzero background solution is changed into the rational travelling waves. Finally, we also give a simple analysis of the soliton as the time t is large, then we give the comparison between the exact solution and the asymptotic solution.展开更多
The inverse scattering transform of a coupled Sasa–Satsuma equation is studied via Riemann–Hilbert approach. Firstly, the spectral analysis is performed for the coupled Sasa–Satsuma equation, from which a Riemann–...The inverse scattering transform of a coupled Sasa–Satsuma equation is studied via Riemann–Hilbert approach. Firstly, the spectral analysis is performed for the coupled Sasa–Satsuma equation, from which a Riemann–Hilbert problem is formulated. Then the Riemann–Hilbert problem corresponding to the reflection-less case is solved.As applications, multi-soliton solutions are obtained for the coupled Sasa–Satsuma equation. Moreover, some figures are given to describe the soliton behaviors, including breather types, single-hump solitons, double-hump solitons, and two-bell solitons.展开更多
The inverse problem considered in this paper is to determine the shape and the impedance of an obstacle from a knowledge of the time-harmonic incident field and the phase and amplitude of the far field pattern of the ...The inverse problem considered in this paper is to determine the shape and the impedance of an obstacle from a knowledge of the time-harmonic incident field and the phase and amplitude of the far field pattern of the scattered wave in two-dimension. Single-layer potential is used to approach the scattered waves. An approximation method is presented and the convergence of the proposed method is established. Numerical examples are given to show that this method is both accurate and easy to use.展开更多
In this paper, we consider the inverse scattering problem of reconstructing a bounded obstacle in a three-dimensional planar waveguide from the scattered near-field data measured on a finite cylindrical surface contai...In this paper, we consider the inverse scattering problem of reconstructing a bounded obstacle in a three-dimensional planar waveguide from the scattered near-field data measured on a finite cylindrical surface containing the obstacle and corresponding to infinitely many incident point sources also placed on the measurement surface. The obstacle is allowed to be an impenetrable scatterer or a penetrable scatterer. We establish the validity of the factorization method with the nearfield data to characterize the obstacle in the planar waveguide by constructing an outgoing-to-incoming operator which is an integral operator defined on the measurement surface with the kernel given in terms of an infinite series.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.10947170/A05 and 11104291)the Natural Science Fund for Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province (Grant No.10KJB140006)+2 种基金the Natural Sciences Foundation of Shanghai (Grant No.11ZR1441300)the Natural Science Foundation of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (Grant No.NY221098)the Jiangsu Qing Lan Project for their sponsorship。
文摘This paper presents a novel view of the impact of electron collision off-axis positions on the dynamic properties and relativistic nonlinear Thomson inverse scattering of excited electrons within tightly focused, circularly polarized laser pulses of varying intensities. We examine the effects of the transverse ponderomotive force, specifically how the deviation angle and speed of electron motion are affected by the initial off-axis position of the electron and the peak amplitude of the laser pulse. When the laser pulse intensity is low, an increase in the electron's initial off-axis distance results in reduced spatial radiation power, improved collimation, super-continuum phenomena generation, red-shifting of the spectrum's harmonic peak, and significant symmetry in the radiation radial direction. However, in contradiction to conventional understandings,when the laser pulse intensity is relatively high, the properties of the relativistic nonlinear Thomson inverse scattering of the electron deviate from the central axis, changing direction in opposition to the aforementioned effects. After reaching a peak, these properties then shift again, aligning with the previous direction. The complex interplay of these effects suggests a greater nuance and intricacy in the relationship between laser pulse intensity, electron position, and scattering properties than previously thought.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61071022)the Graduate Student Research and Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province,China (Grant No. CXZZ11-0381)
文摘A novel method based on the relevance vector machine(RVM) for the inverse scattering problem is presented in this paper.The nonlinearity and the ill-posedness inherent in this problem are simultaneously considered.The nonlinearity is embodied in the relation between the scattered field and the target property,which can be obtained through the RVM training process.Besides,rather than utilizing regularization,the ill-posed nature of the inversion is naturally accounted for because the RVM can produce a probabilistic output.Simulation results reveal that the proposed RVM-based approach can provide comparative performances in terms of accuracy,convergence,robustness,generalization,and improved performance in terms of sparse property in comparison with the support vector machine(SVM) based approach.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.10371070,10671121the Foundation of Shanghai Education Committee for Shanghai Prospective Excellent Young Teachers+1 种基金Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project under Grant No.J50101 the President Foundation of East China Institute of Technology under Grant No.DHXK0810
文摘N-soliton solutions of the hierarchy of non-isospectral mKdV equation with self-consistent sources andthe hierarchy of non-isospectral sine-Gordon equation with self-consistent sources are obtained via the inverse scatteringtransform.
基金The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 10474076 and 10375041
文摘One of the basic problems about the inverse scattering transform for solving a completely integrable nonlinear evolutions equation is to demonstrate that the Jost solutions obtained from the inverse scattering equations of Cauchy integral satisfy the Lax equations. Such a basic problem still exists in the procedure of deriving the dark soliton solutions of the NLS equation in normal dispersion with non-vanishing boundary conditions through the inverse scattering transform. In this paper, a pair of Jost solutions with same analytic properties are composed to be a 2 × 2 matrix and then another pair are introduced to be its right inverse confirmed by the Liouville theorem. As they are both 2 × 2 matrices, the right inverse should be the left inverse too, based upon which it is not difficult to show that these Jost solutions satisfy both the first and second Lax equations. As a result of compatibility condition, the dark soliton solutions definitely satisfy the NLS equation in normal dispersion with non-vanishing boundary conditions.
基金the first author (XL) was supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (20100480494)the NSF of China (11101412)+1 种基金K.C. Wong Education Foundation, Hong Kongthe second author (BZ) was supported by the NSF of China (11071244,11161130002)
文摘This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using the integral equation method. We then proceed to establish two tools that play important roles for the inverse problem: one is a mixed reciprocity relation and the other is a priori estimates of the solution on some part of the interfaces between the layered media. For the inverse problem, we prove in this paper that both the penetrable interfaces and the possible inside inhomogeneity can be uniquely determined from a knowledge of the far field pattern for incident plane waves.
基金The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 10534030 and 10375041
文摘Since the Jost solutions of the DNLS equation does not tend to the free Jost solutioins as |λ|→∞, the usual inverse scattering transform (IST) must be revised. Beside the Kaup and Newell's approach, we propose a simple revision in constructing the equations of IST, where the usual Zakharov-Shabat kern is revised by multiplying λ^-2 or λ^-1. To justify the revision we show that the Jost solutions obtained do satisfy the pair of compatibility equations.
文摘The multi-parameter inversion of elastic wave equation in a half-space within the Born approximation is studied. A method of simultaneously reconstructing the configurations of the density and Lame parameters of the medium was presented by use of a wideband measuring schemes in which transmitters and receivers scan over the half-space surface. It is shown that the reflected waves generated by horizontal and vertical pulses on the surface can be decomposed into P-->P, P-->S, S-->P and S-->S types of scattering components. As is expected, these components contain enough information for desired restruction. From them the density and two Lame parameters are determined explicitly, and the results obtained have the form of filtered back-propagation as in the acoustic diffraction tomography.
基金the Huazhong University of Science and Technology under Grant No.0101011110National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.10375041
文摘Using the integral representation of the Jost solution,we deduce some conditions as the kernel functionN(x,y,t)if the Jost solution satisfies the two Lax equations.Then we verify the multi-soliton solution of NLS equationwith non-vanishing boundary conditions if we prove that these conditions can be demonstrated by the GLM equation,which determines the kernel function N(x,y,t)in according to the inverse scattering method.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 10475036)
文摘A Hauser-Ernst-type extended hyperbolic complex linear system given in our previous paper [Gao Y J 2004 Chin. Phys. 13 602] is slightly modified and used to develop a new inverse scattering method for the stationary axisymmetric Einstein-Maxwell theory with multiple Abelian gauge fields. The reduction procedures in this inverse scattering method are found to be fairly simple, which makes the inverse scattering method be fine and effective in practical application. As an example, a concrete family of soliton solutions for the considered theory is obtained.
基金The NNSF(10626017)of Chinathe Science Foundation(11511276)of the Education Committee of Heilongjiang Provincethe Foundation(LBH-Q05114)of Heilongjiang Province
文摘We consider the inverse problem to determine the shape of a open cavity embedded in the infinite ground plane from knowledge of the far-field pattern of the scattering of TM polarization. For its approximate solution we propose a regularized Newton iteration scheme. For a foundation of Newton type methods we establish the Fr^chet differentiability of solution to the scattering problem with respect to the boundary of the cavity. Some numerical examples of the feasibility of the method are presented.
文摘Fourier transform is a basis of the analysis. This paper presents a kind ofmethod of minimum sampling data determined profile of the inverted object ininverse scattering.
文摘We consider the inverse electromagnetic scattering problem of determining the shape of a perfectly conducting core inside a penetrable chiral body. We prove the well-posedness of the corresponding direct scattering problem by the variational method. We focus on a uniqueness result for the inverse scattering problem that is under what conditions an obstacle can be identified by the knowledge of the electric far-field pattern corresponding to all time-harmonic incident planes waves with a fixed wave number. To this end, we establish a chiral mixed reciprocity relation that connects the electric far-field pattern of a spherical wave with the scattered field of a plane wave.
文摘We study wave splitting procedures for acoustic or electromagnetic scattering problems. The idea of these procedures is to split some scattered field into a sum of fields coming from different spatial regions such that this information can be used either for inversion algo- rithms or for active noise control. Splitting algorithms can be based on general boundary layer potential representation or Green's representation formula. We will prove the unique decomposition of scattered wave outside the specified reference domain G and the unique decomposition of far-field pattern with respect to different reference domain G. Further, we employ the splitting technique for field reconstruction for a scatterer with two or more separate components, by combining it with the point source method for wave recovery. Us-ing the decomposition of scattered wave as well as its far-field pattern, the wave splitting procedure proposed in this paper gives an efficient way to the computation of scattered wave near the obstacle, from which the multiple obstacles which cause the far-field pattern can be reconstructed separately. This considerably extends the range of the decomposition methods in the area of inverse scattering. Finally, we will provide numerical examples to demonstrate the feasibility of the splitting method.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(10775105)
文摘A newly revised inverse scattering transform(IST) for the derivative nonlinear Schrdinger(DNLS+) equation with non-vanishing boundary condition(NVBC) and normal group velocity dispersion is proposed by introducing a suitable affine parameter in Zakharov-Shabat integral kern.The explicit breather-type one-soliton solution,which can reproduce one pure soliton at the de-generate case and one bright soliton solution at the limit of van-ishing boundary,has been derived to verify the validity of the revised IST.
基金The Major State Basic Research Development Program Grant (2005CB321701)the Heilongjiang Education Committee Grant (11551364) of China
文摘This paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problems for Schrdinger equations with compactly supported potentials.For purpose of reconstructing the support of the potential,we derive a factorization of the scattering amplitude operator A and prove that the ranges of (A* A) ^1/4 and G which maps more general incident fields than plane waves into the scattering amplitude coincide.As an application we characterize the support of the potential using only the spectral data of the operator A.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(Grant No.ZR2019QD018)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11975143,12105161,61602188)+1 种基金CAS Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Operational Oceanography(Grant No.OOST2021-05)Scientific Research Foundation of Shandong University of Science and Technology for Recruited Talents(Grant Nos.2017RCJJ068,2017RCJJ069)。
文摘In this paper, based on the robust inverse scattering method, we construct two kinds of solutions to the focusing modified Korteweg–de Vries equation. One is the classical soliton solution under the zero background condition and the other one is given through the nonzero background.Especially, for the nonzero background case, we choose a special spectral parameter such that the nonzero background solution is changed into the rational travelling waves. Finally, we also give a simple analysis of the soliton as the time t is large, then we give the comparison between the exact solution and the asymptotic solution.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Project Nos.11331008 and 11171312the Collaborative Innovation Center for Aviation Economy Development of Henan Province
文摘The inverse scattering transform of a coupled Sasa–Satsuma equation is studied via Riemann–Hilbert approach. Firstly, the spectral analysis is performed for the coupled Sasa–Satsuma equation, from which a Riemann–Hilbert problem is formulated. Then the Riemann–Hilbert problem corresponding to the reflection-less case is solved.As applications, multi-soliton solutions are obtained for the coupled Sasa–Satsuma equation. Moreover, some figures are given to describe the soliton behaviors, including breather types, single-hump solitons, double-hump solitons, and two-bell solitons.
文摘The inverse problem considered in this paper is to determine the shape and the impedance of an obstacle from a knowledge of the time-harmonic incident field and the phase and amplitude of the far field pattern of the scattered wave in two-dimension. Single-layer potential is used to approach the scattered waves. An approximation method is presented and the convergence of the proposed method is established. Numerical examples are given to show that this method is both accurate and easy to use.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61421062 and 61520106004)the Microsoft Research Fund of Asia
文摘In this paper, we consider the inverse scattering problem of reconstructing a bounded obstacle in a three-dimensional planar waveguide from the scattered near-field data measured on a finite cylindrical surface containing the obstacle and corresponding to infinitely many incident point sources also placed on the measurement surface. The obstacle is allowed to be an impenetrable scatterer or a penetrable scatterer. We establish the validity of the factorization method with the nearfield data to characterize the obstacle in the planar waveguide by constructing an outgoing-to-incoming operator which is an integral operator defined on the measurement surface with the kernel given in terms of an infinite series.