Abstract: In order to achieve the selective focusing on different targets in electromagnetic plane wave, a decomposition method of the time reversal operator based on the time reversal invariance of wave equation is proposed. In this method, the transfer matrix and time reversal operator are obtained by emitting and receiving the signal for detecting targets with the antenna array. Then, the time reversal operator is used to perform eigenvalue decomposition. In eigenvalue decomposition, the number of nonzero main eigenvalues is the same as the number of targets, and the main eigenvectors corresponding with these nonzero main eigenvalues contain the direction information of the targets. According to these eigenvectors of targets to calculate the objective function of every detection point in the given target area can be obtained the objective function value distribution of the target area, and achieve the selective focusing on different targets. Finally, the simulations are performed and the results show that the selective focusing method with decomposition of the time reversal operator in electromagnetic plane wave is effective.

Key words: information processing, selective focusing, decomposition of the time reversal operator, eigenvector