Author Affiliations

Tom Stephens,^#,* John Arkwright,^#,** Kerry Hinton,^#,* Dmitrii Yu Stepanov,^#,† Peter A. Krug,^#,† Benedict Smith,^#,† George Dhosi,^#,* Gideon Yoffe,^#,† and François Ouellette^#,‡

^#Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre, 770 Blackburn Road, Clayton, Victoria, 3168 Australia

^*Telstra Research Labs, 770 Blackburn Rd., Clayton, Victoria, Australia

^**Siemens Ltd, Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh, NSW 1430, Australia

^‡Now with Kromafiber Inc., 1501 Ampere St., Suite 112, Boucherville, Quebec, Canada J4B 5Z5

^†Optical Fiber Technology Centre, University of Sydney, Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh, NSW 1430, Australia