Acknowledgements

This work is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through national funds under the scholarships PD/BD/105858/2014. It is also supported by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), through the Regional Operational Programme of Lisbon (POR LISBOA 2020) and the Competitiveness and Internationalization Operational Programme (COMPETE 2020) of the Portugal 2020 framework, Project 5G (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-024539), ORCIP (CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-022141), and SOCA (CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000010). It is also funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through national funds under the project COMPRESS-PTDC/EEI-TEL/7163/2014 and by FEDER, through the Regional Operational Program of Centre (CENTRO 2020) of the Portugal 2020 framework [Project HeatIT with Nr. 017942 (CENTRO-01-0247- FEDER-017942)] and [Project Virtual Fiber Box with Nr. 033910 (POCI-01-0247- FEDER-033910)]. Additional support is provided by the COST action CA16220 European Network for High Performance Integrated Microwave Photonics (EUIMWP) and IT (UID/EEA/50008/2013).

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