Author Affiliations

Georg Rademacher,^(1),* Menno van den Hout,^(1),(2) Ruben S. Luís,⁽¹⁾ Benjamin J. Puttnam,⁽¹⁾ Giammarco Di Sciullo,^(1),(3) Tetsuya Hayashi,⁽⁴⁾ Ayumi Inoue,⁽⁴⁾ Takuji Nagashima,⁽⁴⁾ Simon Gross,⁽⁵⁾ Andrew Ross-Adams,⁽⁶⁾ Michael J. Withford,⁽⁶⁾ Jun Sakaguchi,⁽¹⁾ Cristian Antonelli,⁽³⁾ Chigo Okonkwo,⁽²⁾ and Hideaki Furukawa⁽¹⁾

⁽¹⁾NICT, 4-2-1, Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo, 184-8795, Japan

⁽²⁾High Capacity Optical Transmission Lab, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

⁽³⁾University of L’Aquila and CNIT, 67100, L’Aquila, Italy

⁽⁴⁾Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., 1 Taya-cho, Sakae-ku, Yokohama 244-8588, Japan

⁽⁵⁾MQ Photonics Research Centre, School of Engineering, Macquarie Univ., Sydney, Australia.

⁽⁶⁾MQ Photonics Research Centre, School of Math. and Physical Sciences, Macquarie Univ., Sydney, Australia.

^*Corresponding author: georg.rademacher@nict.go.jp