MZI

class picazzo3.filters.mzi.cell.MZI(*args, **kwargs)

Generic MZI, taking a splitter, combiner and two _MziArm objects. You have to specify the transformations yourself.

Parameters

arm1: PCell and MZIArm

The South arm of the MZI

arm1_port_names: String that contains only alphanumeric characters from the ASCII set or contains _$. ASCII set is extended on PY3. and length == 2

port names for the south arm ports connected to splitter and combiner. Default = (‘in’, ‘out’)

arm2: PCell and MZIArm

The North arm of the MZI

arm2_port_names: String that contains only alphanumeric characters from the ASCII set or contains _$. ASCII set is extended on PY3. and length == 2

port names for the north arm ports connected to splitter and combiner. Default = (‘in’, ‘out’)

combiner: PCell

The combiner of the MZI

combiner_port_names: String that contains only alphanumeric characters from the ASCII set or contains _$. ASCII set is extended on PY3. and length == 2

port names for the combiner ports to the arms. Default = (‘in1’, ‘in2’)

splitter: PCell

The splitter of the MZI

splitter_port_names: String that contains only alphanumeric characters from the ASCII set or contains _$. ASCII set is extended on PY3. and length == 2

port names for the splitter ports to the arms. Default = (‘out1’, ‘out2’)

external_port_names: str

Map of the free instance terms/ports to the names of external terms/ports.Format is a dict {‘inst:term’ : ‘new_term_name’}.If a term/port is not listed, the format instname_portname will be used

name: String that contains only ISO/IEC 8859-1 (extended ASCII py3) or pure ASCII (py2) characters

The unique name of the pcell

Other Parameters

child_cells: locked

links: locked

Views

Layout = <class 'picazzo3.filters.mzi.cell.MZI.Layout'>