Purchase Order 1305M320PNRMJ0468

Oewaves, Inc., a small business manufacturer, was awarded a $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop and demonstrate an extended cavity ultra-stable 436 nm diode laser system for long duration space applications. The laser system will be based on a semiconductor laser locked to a monolithic microcavity using self-injection locking, providing complete suppression of mode hops. The laser is intended to serve as an optical local...

The Office of Naval Research awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at $35,048 to Amplitude Laser, Inc.'s High Energy Division for an oscillator. The contract, awarded on August 6, 2013, with an ultimate completion date of October 11, 2013, was performed in Santa Clara, California. No set-aside designation was applied to this award. Amplitude Laser, Inc. is an established manufacturer of advanced laser systems and components specializing in high-energy laser technologies, with...

The Department of the Navy Naval Observatory awarded a firm fixed price purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, for a laser system that outputs light at 657.459nm with at least 700mW of power. This $148,793.40 contract supports the Naval Observatory's investigation of atomic clock technology using optical spectroscopy on a calcium atomic beam. The laser will be used to drive a specific transition within calcium that serves as the frequency reference, as part of the...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc. for a single frequency laser valued at $37,400.00 on September 2, 2025. The order calls for a 1396 nm continuous wave laser system with optical frequency stability less than 100 MHz per Kelvin, short-term linewidth of 100 kHz or less, optical fiber coupled output, and an electronic controller with current and temperature control and modulation capabilities for NIST's Quantum & Nonlinear...

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...

This is a Firm Fixed Price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA's Ames Research Center to Vescent Photonics Inc., a precision laser manufacturer. The contract, valued at $99,929, requires Vescent Photonics to design and build improved laser frequency locking and control systems suitable for NASA's ASCENDS and other remote sensing missions. The objective is to develop precision laser frequency control with absolute frequency stability better than 1 MHz and...

This is a firm-fixed-price (FFP) purchase order awarded by the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) on behalf of the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) to Lumibird Photonics USA, Inc. for a fiber-coupled laser system. The laser system, with a center wavelength of 780.24 nm, CW laser linewidth of 3 mW, and power consumption under 250 W, is to be used by the USNO Clock Development Division. The contract has a ceiling value of $283,500.00 and a period of performance ending on March 29, 2019....

The Department of the Navy Naval Observatory awarded a $129,600 firm fixed price purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc. for an HP controller for an HP TA-SHG. The solicitation sought MOGLABS laser systems to upgrade the repump laser system powering the Navy's rubidium fountain clocks. Providing more efficient light delivery and reduced maintenance downtime, the lasers would improve clock performance while potentially lasting longer than existing diode-based systems, representing long-term cost...

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...

On August 28, 2025, NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $17,000 firm fixed-price purchase order to Picophotonics OY, a Finnish manufacturer, for the procurement of one CP32 532 nanometer Master Oscillator Power Amplifier (MOPA) laser. The laser is intended for the Space Geodesy Project and will be delivered to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center within 10 weeks of award. The specialized instrument must meet stringent technical specifications including a 532 nm wavelength, pulse duration under...