Author Affiliations

Asier Villafranca,¹ Javier Lasobras,¹ Ignacio Garces,¹ Guido Giuliani,² Silvano Donati,² Marek Chacinski,³ Richard Schatz,³ Christos Kouloumentas,⁴ Dimitrios Klonidis,⁴ Ioannis Tomkos,⁴ Pascal Landais,⁵ Raul Escorihuela,⁶ Judy Rorison,⁷ Jose Pozo,⁷ Andrea Fiore,⁸ Pablo Moreno,⁸ Marco Rossetti,⁸ Wolfgang Elsässer,⁹ Jens Von Staden,⁹ Guillaume Huyet,¹⁰ Mika Saarinen,¹¹ Markus Pessa,¹¹ Pirjo Leinonen,¹¹ Ville Vilokkinen,¹² Marc Sciamanna,¹³ Jan Danckaert,¹⁴ Krassimir Panajotov,¹⁴ Thomas Fordell,¹⁵ Asa Lindberg,¹⁵ J-F. Hayau,¹⁶ J. Poette,¹⁶ P. Besnard,¹⁶ and F. Grillot^16,*

¹Photonics Technology Group - University of Zaragoza, PT Walqa, Ed.l, 22197 Cuarte (Huesca) Spain

²Dipartimento di Elettronica, Università di Pavia, Via Ferrata l, 1-27100 Pavia, Italy.

³Royal Institute of Technology, Laboratory of Photonics and Microwave Engineering, ELECTRUM 229, SE-164 40 Kista-Stockholm, Sweden

⁴Athens Information Technology Center (AIT), 19,5km Markopoulou Av., 19002, Peania, Greece

⁵School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University,Dublin 9, Ireland

⁶Aragon Photonics Labs S.L., c/Prado 5 local, 50009 - Zaragoza, Spain

⁷Centre for Communications Research, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bristol, BS8 1UB, Bristol, U.K.

⁸Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics, Station 3, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

⁹Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut für Angewandte Physik, Schloßgartenstr. 7, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany

¹⁰Department of Physics, Tyndall Institute, National University of Ireland, University College, Cork, Ireland

¹¹Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 692, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland

¹²Modulight, Inc., P.O. Box 770, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland

¹³SUPELEC - Campus de Metz, LMOPS, CNRS UMR 7132 - Metz et Supélec,2 Rue Edouard Belin, F-57070 Metz, France

¹⁴Department of Applied Physics and Photonics (TW-TONA), Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

¹⁵Accelerator Laboratory, Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland

¹⁶FOTON-ENSSAT, CNRS UMR 6082 6 rue de Kerampont, 22300 Lannion, FRANCE

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