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Abstract
A complete spectral representation for the electromagnetic field of planar multilayered waveguides inhomogeneously filled with pseudochiral Ω -media is presented. The problem of guided electromagnetic wave propagation is reduced to an eigenvalue equation related to a 2x2 matrix differential operator. Using the concept of adjoint waveguide, general bi-orthogonality relations for the hybrid modes (either from the discrete or from the continuous spectrum) are derived. For the special case of homogeneous layers the linear operator formalism is reduced to a simple 2 x 2 coupling matrix eigenvalue problem. Finally, as an example of application, the surface and the radiation modes of a grounded pseudochiral Ω -slab waveguide are analyzed.