Pendar Technologies LLC, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based manufacturer of quantum cascade lasers, has been awarded a $749,865 firm fixed price purchase order by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory. The contract calls for Pendar Technologies to deliver reliable high power mid-wave infrared quantum cascade lasers in support of the Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase II initiative. Work will be performed in Cambridge, with a completion date of November 6, 2023. As a...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $113,500.00 firm fixed price purchase order to Daylight Solutions Inc., doing business as DRS Daylight Solutions, for the delivery of a high performance infrared quantum cascade laser. This award was set aside for small businesses. Daylight Solutions is a manufacturer of mid-infrared laser systems and components that has provided specialized lasers, laser systems, optics, and related components to various federal...
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 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $110,999 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Longwave Photonics LLC, a minority-owned small business, for the delivery of a terahertz quantum cascade laser (THz-QCL) system. This system will be used by NIST's Optical Measurements Group within the Material Measurement Laboratory to test components for a spectro-radiometry calibration and measurement testbed. The key requirements include a continuous wave laser output in the 3.7 to...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $319,644.98 firm fixed price definitive contract to Toptica Photonics Inc. for the delivery of three Toptica Photonics laser systems. The solicitation sought a rack-mountable narrow linewidth laser at 455.5nm with over 60mW output, two frequency-doubled amplified laser systems at 585.5nm and 614.3nm each with over 200mW output, and installation and labeling services to meet research needs. Place of performance will be...
This federal contract award was made by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy to Boston Electronics Corporation, a for-profit distributor of advanced electro-optical components and specialized systems. The $16,704.98 firm fixed-price purchase order is for a high-power, continuous-wave, distributed feedback quantum cascade laser (RT-CW-DFB-QCL-40) that can be tuned to and through 1927.3 cm-1 for nitric oxide sensing applications. This contract has a total small business...
This federal contract award to Daylight Solutions Inc., a manufacturer of mid-infrared laser systems, is for the delivery of a MIRCAT FAST TUNABLE MID-IR QUANTUM CASCADE LASER. The $110,832.00 fixed-price contract was awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency under the U.S. Department of Commerce. The contract has a set-aside designation for a small business. Daylight Solutions, which operates as a division of the Italian firm Leonardo SPA, has...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Quantaspec, Inc., a small business. The contract, valued at $108,000.00, is for the development of "High Brightness Long Wave Quantum Cascade Laser" in response to SBIR Topic No. A19-051. The contract was awarded on August 21, 2019 and has a completion date of February 20, 2020. The contract is a firm-fixed-price purchase order.
This is a $750,000 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Longwave Photonics LLC, a minority-owned small business. The contract is for the development of a high-power, frequency-tunable, phase/frequency-locked, single-mode, external cavity terahertz quantum cascade laser (ECT-QCL) system with over 2 milliwatt average power output and potential to increase to over 10 milliwatts. This system is intended to provide local oscillator sources...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $50,736.50 firm fixed-price purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc. for a tunable laser. The laser will support NIST's efforts to develop an entangled photon source. Under the contract, Toptica Photonics will deliver a tunable laser meeting the specifications provided in the solicitation within 40 weeks of the September 21, 2023 award date. The solicitation sought a commercial item laser under Federal...