<p>The Washington Headquarters Service awarded a definitive contract to Orbits Lightwave Inc. for development and commercialization of an ultra-low noise, high-power, compact fiber laser oscillator operating at 1762 nm wavelength on April 8, 2026, under a total small business set-aside.</p>
<p>The contract ceiling is $2,083,235 with cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing. Place of performance is Pasadena, CA. The ultimate completion date is July 7, 2028.</p>
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (WRALC) of the U.S. Department of Defense to Oewaves, Inc. for the delivery of three (3) ultranarrow linewidth telecom lasers. The contract has a ceiling value of $89,752.00 and a completion date of October 24, 2024. Oewaves, Inc. is a manufacturer of specialized photonic products and solutions that has previously supported research and development efforts at agencies such as the National...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at $89,106 to Oewaves, Inc. for a CS laser system on April 10, 2025. The contract, which carries no set-aside designation, is scheduled for completion by July 18, 2025, with performance taking place at Oewaves' facility in Pasadena, California. Oewaves, a specialized manufacturer of advanced microwave photonic products and laser technologies, was selected to deliver this precision laser...
The U.S. Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded Oewaves, Inc. a $150,000.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract for a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project to develop a "Compact Mode-Hop Free Narrow Line Turnkey Laser System for Quantum Technology." This award is set-aside for small businesses. Oewaves, Inc. is a for-profit manufacturer that specializes in microwave photonic products and...
This is a $1,227,753.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Oewaves, Inc., a small business manufacturer of specialized microwave photonic products and solutions. The contract is for the development of a "SPECTRALLY-PURE, STABLE, RUGGEDIZED MASTER OSCILLATOR FOR AIRBORNE COHERENT LADAR" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract has a period of performance ending on March 31, 2020. Oewaves, Inc....
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to Oewaves, Inc., a small business manufacturer. The contract is for the delivery of a 1348 nm tapered amplifier laser with specific performance parameters, including a mode-hop-free thermal tuning range greater than 10 GHz and an instantaneous linewidth below 125 Hz. The total ceiling value of the contract is $80,023. This award was the result of a small...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded Oewaves, Inc. a $38,756 firm fixed price purchase order to deliver an ultra narrow single linewidth laser. As part of its mission to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness, NIST supports research in precision measurement and standards which this laser will enable. Oewaves will perform all work on this contract in Pasadena, California by the scheduled completion date of November 24, 2023. No...
The Department of the Army awarded a $2,094,978.36 definitive contract to Beacon Photonics Inc. on April 6, 2026, under a total small business set-aside, to develop a mode-locked laser on chip combining the robustness of fiber laser approaches with the miniaturization and fabrication advantages of photonics integrated circuits. The contract is firm fixed price with an ultimate completion date of April 6, 2028. Place of performance is Arlington, VA. The originating solicitation was a Department...
<p>The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a purchase order to Oewaves, Inc. for $34,550.00 on September 11, 2025, for an OE Waves OE4040 HI-Q C-band laser with 210 GHz tuning range. Performance will be completed at the contractor's facility in Pasadena, California, with an ultimate completion date of November 21, 2025. The order is firm fixed price with no small business set-aside.</p>
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $29,756 firm fixed price purchase order to Oewaves, Inc. of Pasadena, California. The contract is to deliver a tunable laser with an ultralow linewidth of below 7 Hz, and potentially below 1 Hz, over the telecommunications wavelength band of 1500-1600 nm. NIST requires the laser in support of its research on photonic crystals and efforts to control and probe such structures at the quantum level. The sole...