Unified treatment of exact and approximate scalar electromagnetic wave scattering

Abstract

Under conditions of strong scattering, a dilemma often arises regarding the best numerical method to use. Main competitors are the Born series, the Beam Propagation Method, and direct solution of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation. However, analytical relationships between the three methods have not yet, to our knowledge, been explicitly stated. Here, we bridge this gap in the literature. In addition to overall insight about aspects of optical scattering that are best numerically captured by each method, our approach allows us to derive approximate error bounds to be expected under various scattering conditions.

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