Definitive Contract W15P7T10CH606

The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc. for a 1300nm laser on September 2, 2025, with a ceiling value of $63,440.00. The order is set aside for small business. Work is performed in Pittsford, New York. The procurement calls for a continuously tunable 1300nm laser delivering over 20mW output power with optical isolation, short-term linewidth under 10kHz, and fiber coupling efficiency above 50 percent. The laser must be new from an...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $410,750 firm fixed price purchase order to Light Conversion-Usa, Inc. to deliver a high-power, high repetition-rate near-infrared femtosecond laser system. The solicitation sought a laser capable of producing a minimum of 140 watts output power, 0.5 millijoule pulse energy, and user-selectable repetition rates from megahertz to single-shot for terahertz pulse generation and spectroscopy applications. Light Conversion-Usa, Inc. will...

This is a firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Photon Sciences, Incorporated, a small for-profit manufacturer and developer of advanced photonics technologies based in Plano, Texas. The contract, valued at $124,827, is for the research and development of a new high-speed optical communication technology that integrates an electro-absorption modulator with a surface-emitting laser. This solution aims to address the...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $417,900 firm-fixed-price purchase order to IPG Photonics Corporation to deliver a far-infrared dual frequency comb laser system. The notice of intent to sole source referenced market research finding IPG Photonics as the only company capable of meeting the required technical specifications for a system operating from 5 to 20 micrometers wavelength, producing over 100 milliwatts of output power while consuming less than 1 megawatt of...

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation's Space Systems Division was awarded a $6.7M definitive contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory on August 5, 2021, to develop multi-spectral laser technology. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the company will develop a high-power laser system capable of emitting wavelengths between 350-1750 nanometers with either true broadband or discrete spectral lines spaced less than 50 nanometers apart. The system must achieve an objective power spectral...

This is a $749,993 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase II contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Freedom Photonics, LLC, a small business manufacturer of photonic components and subsystems located in Goleta, California. The contract is for the development and delivery of a robust, low-cost, and compact laser source with improved performance to be incorporated into advanced fiber optic sensor (FOS) interrogator systems. The laser will have a 40nm continuous tuning range around the C-band...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc., a small business manufacturer, for a 435-nanometer continuous wave laser. The $137,235 contract is intended to support research programs by providing a laser system with specifications including a single-mode, TEM00 output at greater than 0.5 watts, and a secondary 870-nanometer output coupled to a polarization-maintaining fiber with over 4...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Rpmc Lasers Inc., a small business, to deliver one (1) long-wave distributed feedback (DFB) quantum cascade laser (QCL) in the amount of $32,563.00. This laser must meet specific technical requirements, including operating in continuous-wave mode at a wavelength of 17.2 ± 0.2 microns with a minimum output power of 1 mW. The contract has a period of performance...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract worth $221,667.64 to Coherent NA, Inc. for a Continuously Tunable Pulsed Laser. This laser will be used by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) for their ELS3D project in the photonics lab. The contract has specific performance requirements for the laser, including a tunable range of 600 nm to 2600 nm, adjustable pulse width from 100s of femtoseconds...

This contract award is for a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project to develop a 100W high efficiency 1550nm pulsed fiber laser. The award was made by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the small business Polaronyx Inc. located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The goal of the project is to address technical challenges in achieving high peak power, short pulse width, and high wall-plug efficiency for fiber lasers, which are enabling technologies for deep...