Author Affiliations

Ben Amies-King,^1,†,* Karolina P. Schatz,^1,† Haofan Duan,^1,† Ayan Biswas,¹ Jack Bailey,² Adrian Felvinti,² Jaimes Winward,² Mike Dixon,² Mariella Minder,^1,3 Rupesh Kumar,¹ Sophie Albosh,¹ and Marco Lucamarini¹

¹School of Physics, Engineering & Technology and York Centre for Quantum Technologies, Institute for Safe Autonomy, University of York, YO10 5FT York, U.K.

²euNetworks Fiber UK Limited, 5 Churchill Place, London, E14 5HU, U.K.

³Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, 3036, CY

^†These authors contributed equally to this work.

^*Corresponding author: ben.amies-king@york.ac.uk