Author Affiliations

Dimitrios Klonidis,^(1),(3),* Christina (Tanya) Politi,^(2),(3) Emmanouil Dialynas,⁽³⁾ Michael O’Mahony,⁽³⁾ Dimitra Simeonidou,⁽³⁾ and Alistair Poustie⁽⁴⁾

⁽¹⁾Athens Information Technology (AIT), 19,5km Markopoulou Av., 19002, Peania, Greece

⁽²⁾School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, 9 Heroon Polytechniou Street, 15773, Zografou, Greece

⁽³⁾Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK.

⁽⁴⁾Centre for Integrated Photonics (CIP), B55 Adastral Park, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, U.K.

^*Corresponding author: dikl@ait.edu.gr, tpoliti@telecom.ntua.gr, edialy@essex.ac.uk, mikej@essex.ac.uk, dsimeo@essex.ac.uk, alistair.poustie@ciphotonics.com