Technique for inversion of an inhomogeneous bianisotropic slab through an optimisation approach.

An electromagnetic inversion method is presented to reconstruct the constitutive parameters of an inhomogeneous bianisotropic slab. The measured co- and cross-reflection and transmission coefficients are used to extract the electromagnetic parameters profiles of the inhomogeneous bianisotropic media from the proposed method, using truncated Fourier series expansion and Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA). GSA is used to improve the speed and accuracy of the optimisation process because of the complexity of inhomogeneous bianisotropic media, highly non-linearity of optimisation problem, and extremely large search space. Finally, the accuracy and robustness of the proposed reconstruction method are validated using some typical examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]