transverse electric polarization
polar-
ization state of a transverse electric (TE)
mode. Also called TE polarization.
transverse electric wave
electromagnetic
waves polarized so that the electric field in-
tensity vector is perpendicular to the direc-
tion of propagation. The wave solutions have
zero electric field component in the direction
of propagation. Also known as TE-wave or
H-mode.
transverse electromagnetic (TEM)
re-
ferring to fields or waves in which both the
electric and magnetic fields have nonzero
vector components only in the plane perpen-
dicular (transverse) to a specified axis, usu-
ally a coordinate axis. In a TEM wave, the
electric and magnetic fields are perpendicular
to each other and to the direction of propaga-
tion.
transverse electromagnetic mode
elec-
tromagnetic wave propagation mode in
which electric and magnetic fields are trans-
verse to the direction of propagation (i.e., no
radial field components). TEM mode prop-
agation is a characteristic of antenna radia-
tion in the far-field and of transmission-line
propagation below the cutoff frequency of the
higher order modes.
transverse electromagnetic wave
the
electric and magnetic field components along
in the direction of propagation are zero. Ab-
breviated TEM wave.
transverse excitation
laser pumping pro-
cess in which the pump power is introduced
into the amplifying medium in a direction
perpendicular to the direction of propagation
of the resulting laser radiation.
transverse magnetic (TM)
referring to
fields or waves in which the magnetic field
has nonzero vector components only in the
plane perpendicular (transverse) to a speci-
fied axis, usually a coordinate axis.
transverse magnetic wave
the wave so-
lutions with zero magnetic field component
in the direction of propagation. Also known
as TM wave and E-modes.
transverse mode
term (somewhat mis-
leading) used in referring to the transverse
structure or indices of the mode of a laser
oscillator.
transverse mode-locking
forcing the
transverse modes of a laser to be equally
spaced in frequency and have a fixed phase
relationship; useful for obtaining a scanning
output beam oscillator.
transverse resonance
a technique used in
order to find the modes of closed waveguides.
transverse-excitation-atmospheric (TEA)
laser
high pressure (sometimes atmo-
spheric pressure or higher) gas laser excited
by a discharge in which the current flow is
transverse to the direction of propagation of
the laser beam; useful for very high power
pulsed applications.
trap
(1) in microelectronics, an imper-
fection in a semiconducting material that can
capture a free electron or hole.
(2) in computers, a machine operation
consisting of a hardware-generated interrupt
or subroutine call that is invoked in the case of
some error condition, for example, encoun-
tering an unimplemented instruction code in
the instruction stream. See also
exception
.
TRAPATT diode
acronym for trapped
plasma avalanche transit time, a microwave
diode that uses a high field generated
electron-hole plasma and the resulting diffu-
sion of these carriers to the contacts to create
a microwave negative resistance, used as high
power, high efficiency RF power sources.
trapezoidal pattern
a signal produced
on an oscilloscope by applying an amplitude
modulated signal to the horizontal input and
the modulating signal to the vertical input.
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