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The paper presents exemplary application of the interference TE0-TM0 modes to monitor the presence of water vapour and ammonia. Also the possibility of applying the mode in interference of the same polarization states (TE0-TM1) to monitor the changes of refractive index are presented. The planar waveguides have been produced using the ion exchange technique Na+ - K+ in the glass BK-7.