Spirals

Spirals are useful components to insert large waveguides on a small area. In Picazzo there are three different kinds of spirals

  • SingleSpirals have a input port inside the spiral and an output port outside the spiral.

  • DoubleSpirals have both ports outside the spiral.

  • DoubleSpiralsWithInCoupling have both ports outside the spiral with in coupling waveguides.

  • FixedLengthSpiral is a double spiral with in coupling sections with a fixed length that can explicitly be set.

All spirals can also be rounded for which there are specialty classes as well.

SingleSpiral

Single spiral class going from the inside to the outside.

SingleSpiralRounded

Rounded single spiral class going from the inside to the outside.

DoubleSpiral

Double spiral class with both access waveguides on the outside of the spiral.

DoubleSpiralRounded

Rounded double spiral class with both access waveguides on the outside of the spiral.

DoubleSpiralWithInCoupling

Double spiral class with both access waveguides on the outside of the spiral.

DoubleSpiralWithInCouplingRounded

Rounded double spiral class with both access waveguides on the outside of the spiral.

FixedLengthSpiral

Spiral with incoupling sections that calculates its length.

FixedLengthSpiralRounded

Rounded spiral with incoupling sections that calculates its length.