Traces and Transitions Reference

Inside this reference, you can find documentation about waveguides, tapers, windows, trace templates and other concepts related to traces and transitions. Traces and transitions are the PCells used to connect other Pcells with each other. A trace connects ports with the same trace template while a transition is a connection between two ports with a different trace template. Both can be defined in the optical and in the electrical domain.

This reference section is divided in different categories:

• Traces

• Transitions

• Trace templates

• Trace bundles

• Windows

• Electrical Vias

If you want to find out more about a specific class related to traces and transitions in the ipkiss3.all package, you can look for it in this alphabetically ordered list below.

ElectricalWire	A basic electrical trace ( wire )
ElectricalWireTemplate	A TraceTemplate to easily create electrical wires
ElectricalWindowWireTemplate	An advanced trace template that is used to define electrical wires using 'windows'.
ExponentialWindowTraceTransition	Exponential transition between two window trace templates
ExponentialWindowWaveguideTransition	Exponential waveguide transition (taper) for window waveguide templates
ExponentialWindowWaveguideTransitionFromPort	Exponential transition (taper) starting from a port with a window waveguide template
ExtendedPathTraceWindow	Defines a window to be extruded along a shape in the form of a path.
LinearWindowTraceTransition	Linear transition between two window trace templates
LinearWindowWaveguideTransition	Linear waveguide transition (taper) for window waveguide templates
LinearWindowWaveguideTransitionFromPort	Linear waveguide transition (taper) starting from a port with a window waveguide template
ParabolicWindowTraceTransition	Parabolic transition between two window trace templates
ParabolicWindowWaveguideTransition	Parabolic waveguide transition (taper) for window waveguide templates
ParabolicWindowWaveguideTransitionFromPort	Parabolic transition (taper) starting from a port with a window waveguide template
PathTraceWindow	Defines a window to be extruded along a shape in the form of a Path
PeriodicArrayReferenceTraceWindow	Define a shape along a given path and fill it with a regular array of components
RoundedWaveguide	A waveguide with a rounded shape
TaperedWaveguide	A Rounded Waveguide that tapers to another template (straight_trace_template) in straight sections
TaperedWaveguideTemplate	A trace template for a TaperedWaveguide
TraceBundle	A base class for bundles of traces
Waveguide	A basic implementation of an optical trace
WindowWaveguideTemplate	Template PCell for an Optical Waveguide Trace based on TraceWindows.

The via classes can be found in the ipkiss3.pcell.via.cell package:

ElectricalVia	Class for common electrical vias.
GenericElectricalVia	Most generic class for electrical vias.