Reply To: TE/TM mode

[Guilin Sun]

 

As mentioned previously, there are contradictory definitions for TE and TM modes.

In FDTD and MODE (FDE, EME, VarFDTD) we call the mode with Ex,Ey and Hz as TE mode. For tightly confined modes, maybe none of the field components are zero. Those are actually the hybrid modes. For simplicity people still call them TE/TM modes.

However, you can always call it differently based on your definition. Actually the terminology is not that important. it is the non-zero, or large transversal field components that matter. What do you think about this comment?