Purchase Order 1333ND25PNB680215
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- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $64,498 firm fixed-price purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc. for a tunable telecom laser on September 15, 2025, with completion expected by January 15, 2026. This contract originated from a pre-solicitation/sources sought announcement posted in July 2025 seeking vendors capable of supplying a specialized tunable laser meeting demanding technical specifications for quantum networking applications. The required laser system...
- The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm-fixed price purchase order valued at one hundred fifty-two thousand one hundred dollars ($152,100) to Nucrypt LLC located in Park Ridge, Illinois. The award is to procure an Entangled Photon Source and two polarization state analyzers as specified in the original special notice, with no set-aside designation utilized. The equipment will support NIST's collaboration with other government agencies through...
- 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...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $45,368.40 firm fixed price purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced laser systems headquartered in Pittsford, New York. Under contract OU68-25-NEW-130, Toptica will deliver a Calcium PI Laser System consisting of two specialized lasers (375 nm and 422 nm wavelengths) designed for photoionizing neutral calcium 40 atoms. The system is intended for NIST's Physical Measurements Lab Time...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced laser systems, for the delivery of one tunable laser to support the agency's Quantum & Nanophotonics Group research on microresonator optical frequency combs. The $56,424.60 contract has a completion date of January 16, 2026 and does not utilize any set-aside designations. The laser must meet technical specifications...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $11,990 firm fixed-price purchase order to Laser Components USA, Inc. on September 2, 2025, for the supply of a PLUTO-2.1-TELCO-142 Phase-Only Spatial Light Modulator. The device is a specialized optical component designed for quantum optics applications, featuring reflective Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) technology with HD 1920x1080 pixel resolution, 90% reflectivity, and 8-bit addressing capability to operate within the...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $101,184 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Toptica Photonics Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of advanced laser systems and photonics instrumentation. The contract is for the delivery of a high-precision wavemeter capable of simultaneously measuring and locking the wavelengths of up to 8 independent lasers across the 390-1140 nm range with an absolute accuracy of +/- 10 MHz. This contract was awarded through an...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, awarded a $145,538.11 firm-fixed-price purchase order to NKT Photonics Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of advanced photonics equipment. The contract requires the delivery of one broadband, high-power supercontinuum light source, one wide bandwidth tunable filter with single-mode fiber output, and one multiline, narrow bandwidth, fast switching tunable filter with single-mode fiber output. This...
- This is a $40,320.50 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Altos Photonics Inc. for the delivery of potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP) crystals. The KTP crystals will be used for the calibration of detectors for the Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) mission. The contract has an ultimate completion date of January 31, 2025. There was no set-aside designation used for this award, indicating Altos...
- This is a $207,885 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, to Toptica Photonics Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of specialized laser systems and photonics components. The contract is for the delivery of an optical parametric oscillator, which is a type of tunable laser system, to be completed by August 13, 2026. This award does not appear to be associated with a larger contract vehicle, and there is...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $29.3K purchase order to Raicol Crystals LTD. (doing business as Raicol Gevishim LTD.), an Israeli manufacturer, for the procurement of six periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate (ppKTP) crystals with specialized anti-reflection coatings. The contract, OU68-25-NEW-096, was awarded on September 16, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of November 17, 2025, and represents a firm fixed-price acquisition conducted through Simplified Acquisition Procedures using a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable evaluation methodology. The crystals are specifically engineered for quantum optics research, featuring precise dimensions of 1 x 4 x 27.4 mm with apodized poling and anti-reflection coatings optimized for 1550/775 nm wavelengths to support spontaneous parametric down-conversion experiments for generating indistinguishable photons. The solicitation, posted on April 24, 2025, with a May 12, 2025 submission deadline, required offerors to demonstrate technical capability to manufacture ppKTP crystals meeting stringent specifications for quantum information science applications. NIST specified a four-week delivery timeline after order receipt, with delivery to the agency's Boulder, Colorado location under F.O.B. Destination terms and Net 30 payment terms contingent upon successful installation and acceptance testing. No set-aside designation was applied to this procurement, and the contract did not utilize a larger vehicle agreement.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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Periodically Poled Potassium Titanyl Phosphate (ppKTP) Crystals | NB686100-25-01358 | Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology | Solicitation 1/2 | 4/24/25, 9:44 AM | |
Periodically Poled Potassium Titanyl Phosphate (ppKTP) Crystals | NB686100-25-01358 | Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology | Pre-Solicitation 2/2 | 5/16/25, 11:55 AM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $29.3k | 9/16/25 |