Profs Andrew Ellis and Nick Doran who recently joined Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies in EAS, have contributed to the Aston Photonics grant portfolio with four more research projects: EPSRC funded project Wideband Optical Communication Systems Using Phase-Sensitive/Insensitive Fibre Optical Parametric Amplifiers (PI – N. Doran), EU FP7 STREP award DISCUS (N. Doran), EU FP7 STREP awards FOX-C and MODE-GAP(A. Ellis).