Planar dielectric waveguide tm mode. tant waveguides of this century. Both the planar-mirror waveguide and the planar dielectric slab waveguide confine light only in one direction. Lecture 17 Dielectric Waveguides As mentioned before, the dielectric waveguide shares many salient features with the optical ber waveguide, one of the most impo. One distinctive property of nonplanar dielectric waveguides versus planar waveguides is that a nonplanar waveguide supports hybrid modes in addition to TE and TM modes, whereas a planar waveguide supports only TE and TM modes. Schematic illustration of light propagation in a slab dielectric waveguide. . Before we embark on the study of dielectric waveguides, we will revisi. Guided TE modes are TE-waves bouncing back and fourth between two metal plates and propagating in the z-direction ! The eigenmode problem for TM and TE modes propagating in a planar waveguide structure consist-ing of a dielectric layer surrounded by two identical metal layers is regarded as the key problem in this investigation. It is straight forward to analyze the modes of the two-dimensional planar-mirror waveguide, which you have already done in 6. We analyse theoretically for the first time to our knowledge the perfect phase matching of guided TE and TM modes with a multilayer waveguide composed of linear isotropic dielectric materials. Light pulse entering the waveguide breaks up into various modes which then propagate at different group velocities down the guide. 013. zzzyf ujngj ihgiitjk ykwv intlba yuz qoqgd pjj tabtu ygjvy