The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to NKT Photonics Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer of photonics equipment, for a low-frequency noise continuous wave fiber laser. The $18,690.25 contract does not have a set-aside designation. The laser system is to be delivered by November 4, 2024, and will support NIST's research and development activities across scientific and defense applications. NKT Photonics has previously received various...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $37,109 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to NKT Photonics Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer of advanced photonics equipment based in Denmark. The contract is for the delivery of a narrow linewidth 1112nm laser to support research and development activities within NIST's Physical Measurements Lab. The laser must meet precise technical specifications, including a center wavelength of 1111.60 nm and a linewidth of 5 mW....
This is a $43,676.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the Department of Commerce, to Coherent NA, Inc. for the delivery of a 10-Watt diode-pumped, solid state 532nm continuous-wave laser. The original solicitation was issued as a commercial item acquisition with a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) evaluation approach. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, and both large...
This federal contract award is for a LASER SYSTEM provided by NKT Photonics Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of high-performance photonics equipment. The $16,546.66 firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded on March 27, 2025 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency. The contract has an ultimate completion date of May 10, 2025 and does not involve any set-aside designation. NKT Photonics has a history of providing specialized...
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...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract worth $82,580 to Toptica Photonics Inc., a small business manufacturer, to provide a high-power rubidium laser system and amplifier. This contract was set aside for small businesses. The laser system and amplifier will be used by NIST's Atomic Devices & Instrumentation Group to generate spectrally pure light at 780 nm wavelength with multiple watts of power, supporting NIST's research...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $31,551.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract to Lighthouse Photonics Incorporated, a manufacturer of diode-pumped solid-state laser systems. The contract is for the delivery of a stand-alone ultra-low noise, high stability 10-watt 532nm diode-pumped solid-state laser to support NIST's implementation of a quantum network testbed on the NIST campus and its connection to the regional DC-QNet. This...
This is a $390,552.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to Toptica Photonics Inc., a small business manufacturer, for a four laser system. The contract was set aside for small businesses. The laser system is to be used for measurements in rubidium and cesium atoms, supporting NIST's research programs. Toptica Photonics has previously served as a prime and subcontractor, providing specialized laser systems...
This firm-fixed-price contract was awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to Toptica Photonics Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced laser systems. The $63,440 contract is for the delivery of a single 1300nm tunable laser with specific technical requirements to support NIST's research on nonlinear and quantum integrated photonics devices. The laser must be continuously tunable from 1290-1350nm, deliver over 20mW of output power, and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $37,400.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Toptica Photonics Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of advanced laser systems and photonics instrumentation, for the delivery of a 1396nm single frequency laser. This laser will be used in NIST's Quantum & Nonlinear Nanophotonics Group's quantum sensing project involving a strontium optical lattice clock with integrated photonics. The contract has an ultimate completion...