Remote probing of a uniaxial plane-layered medium using an incident wave with a varied state of polarization

We describe an original inversion approach for one-dimensional anisotropic inhomogeneous media which makes use of a polarization parameters domain for a magnetodielectric medium. Illustrative results of reconstructing the permittivity tensor components are presented, with the measurement being a linearly polarized plane wave whose state of polarization is varied due to variance in the orientation of the electric field vector. The inversion method seems promising since all measurements are performed at a fixed frequency thus excluding the problem of frequency dispersion and for a fixed location of the transmitting and receiving antennas.