Author Affiliations

V. Katopodis,⁽¹⁾ Z. Zhang,⁽²⁾ P. Groumas,⁽¹⁾ A. Konczykowska,⁽³⁾ J.-Y. Dupuy,⁽³⁾ A. Beretta,⁽⁴⁾ A. Dede,⁽⁴⁾ E. Miller,⁽⁵⁾ J.H. Choi,⁽²⁾ P. Harati,⁽²⁾ F. Jorge,⁽³⁾ V. Nodjiadjim,⁽³⁾ R. Dinu,⁽⁵⁾ G. Cangini,⁽⁵⁾ A. Vannucci,⁽⁴⁾ N. Keil,⁽²⁾ H.-G. Bach,⁽²⁾ N. Grote,⁽²⁾ H. Avramopoulos,⁽¹⁾ and Ch. Kouloumentas⁽¹⁾

⁽¹⁾National Technical University of Athens, Photonic Communications Research Laboratory, Zografou 15573, Athens, Greece

⁽²⁾Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, HHI, Photonic Components, Berlin 10587, Germany

⁽³⁾III-V Lab, Joint lab between Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Thales-TRT and CEA/Leti, Route de Nozay, Marcoussis, 91460 France

⁽⁴⁾Linkra Srl, Via S.Martino 7, 20864 Agrate Brianza (MB) Italy

⁽⁵⁾GigOptix Inc.19910 North Creek Parkway Suite 100, Bothell, WA, 98011, USA