Personal profile
Research Interests
Nonlinear optical effects in fibres including solitons, optical switching and paramtric amplification. Ultra high speed and long distance optical communications and all-optical networks
Biography
Professor Doran has over 40 years experinece in research spanning solid state physics nonlinear optics and optical communications. He has led teams of researcher in British Telecom, Aston university Marconi-Solstis, Swansea university and Aston AIPT. He currently has several projects in the area f nonlinear fibre amplfiers and wide band transmission. He is the PI and CI on several EPSRC projects and has an h index of over 50. He is well known for the invension of the NOLM and disprion manged solitons. He led the team which installed the world's longest high speed optical system across Australia in 2003.
Membership of Professional Bodies
FIET, FOSA
Employment
Research Fellow, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge 1975-1981
Head of Ultra-high speed optical communications group BT labs 1981 1991
Professor Photonics Aston university 1991 -2000
CTO and founder Marconi-Solstis 2000 - 2003
Director IAT Swansea University 2005 -2011
Professor Photonics Aston University, AIPT 2011 - present
Education/Academic qualification
PhD
Keywords
- optical communications
- nonlinear fibre effects
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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FOPA Performance Limitations Due to Pump Phase Modulation
Bastamova, M., Gordienko, V., Sygletos, S., Tan, M., Donodin, A., Doran, N. J. & Ellis, A. D., 2025, Proceedings from Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2025. W3K.4. (Technical Digest Series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication
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Polarization-Insensitive Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifier with Noise Figure down to 4.4 dB enabled by Mach-Zehnder Architecture
Bessin, F., Ferreira, F. M., Doran, N. J. & Gordienko, V., 1 Dec 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Role of Dispersion Slope in Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers
Gordienko, V., Ellis, A. D. & Doran, N. J., 31 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) Proceedings from Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2025. W3K.3. (Technical Digest Series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication
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Automated Polarization-Insensitive C & L Band Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifier for Bidirectional Long-Reach Access Networks
Gordienko, V., Gaur, C. B., Bessin, F., Ellis, A. D. & Doran, N. J., 1 Dec 2024, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 42, 23, p. 8353-8359 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Demonstration of a stable, high-performance Mach-Zehnder Polarization-Insensitive Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifier
Bessin, F., Gordienko, V., Ferreira, F. M. & Doran, N. J., 2024, Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) 2024. M1B.1. (Technical Digest Series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication
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Datasets
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Multi-span transmission of WDM signals with Mach-Zehnder Polarization Insensitive Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifier
Bastamova, M. (Creator), Gordienko, V. (Creator), Sygletos, S. (Creator), Tan, M. (Creator), Pratiwi, D. (Creator), Donodin, A. (Creator), Doran, N. (Creator) & Ellis, A. D. (Creator), Aston Data Explorer, 27 Feb 2026
DOI: 10.17036/researchdata.aston.ac.uk.00000669, https://researchdata.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/669/
Dataset
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Data underpinning article "Record bandwidth waveband-shift-free optical phase conjugation in nonlinear fiber optical loop mirror"
Gordienko, V. (Creator), Boscolo, S. (Creator), Bastamova, M. (Creator), Ellis, A. (Creator) & Doran, N. (Creator), Aston Data Explorer, 24 Jun 2024
DOI: 10.17036/researchdata.aston.ac.uk.00000643, https://researchdata.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/643/
Dataset
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Performance evaluation of a polarisation insensitive Mach-Zehnder fiber parametric amplifier with 38 channel transmission
Bastamova, M. (Creator), Gordienko, V. (Creator), Sygletos, S. (Creator), Donodin, A. (Creator), Nguyen, L. H. (Creator), Bessin, F. (Creator), Boscolo, S. (Creator), Doran, N. (Creator) & Ellis, A. (Creator), Aston Data Explorer, 3 May 2024
DOI: 10.17036/researchdata.aston.ac.uk.00000637, https://researchdata.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/637/
Dataset
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First Experimental Mach-Zehnder FOPA for Polarization- and Wavelength-Division-Multiplexed Signals
Bessin, F. (Creator), Gordienko, V. (Creator), Ferreira, F. M. (Creator) & Doran, N. (Creator), Aston Data Explorer, 2 Jun 2021
DOI: 10.17036/researchdata.aston.ac.uk.00000500
Dataset
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Polarisation-insensitive fibre optic parametric amplification of 50x100GHz spaced channels across 40nm
Gaur, C. B. (Creator), Gordienko, V. (Creator), Ali, A. (Creator), Hazarika, P. (Creator), Ellis, A. (Creator) & Doran, N. (Creator), Aston Data Explorer, 2 Jun 2021
DOI: 10.17036/researchdata.aston.ac.uk.00000499
Dataset
Activities
- 1 Participation in conference
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Optical Fiber Communication 2013 / National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2013
Doran, N. (Participant)
16 Mar 2013 → 22 Mar 2013Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference