Purchase Order 1333ND26PNB680250
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- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc., a small business, for a 950nm tunable laser valued at $62,580.00 on August 15, 2025, under a Total Small Business set-aside. The laser will be delivered to Pittsford, New York. The requirement specified a continuously tunable laser operating from 920nm to 990nm without mode hops, delivering more than 30mW of power with optical isolation, and including control electronics capable of frequency...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a purchase order to NKT Photonics Inc. for a 1078 nm fiber tunable laser on September 4, 2025, with a ceiling value of $17,705.03. Place of performance is Denmark. The procurement acquired a single laser unit for use in a molecule laser cooling platform supporting advanced pressure and temperature metrology. The laser meets technical specifications including continuous wave single frequency output between 1077.8–1078.2 nm, minimal...
- 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...
- <p>The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc. for $63,520 on September 3, 2025, for a continuously tunable laser with mode-hop-free tuning at 780 nanometers, inclusive of dual-stage optical isolator. Performance will take place in Germany, with ultimate completion scheduled for February 11, 2026. The order is firm fixed price with no set-aside category applied.</p>
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc. valued at $33,500 on June 29, 2026, for a 689 nm laser system. The order carries no set-aside designation. Place of performance is Germany. The laser must deliver output centered at 689.44 nm with minimum 1.5 nm tuning range, output power exceeding 75 mW, mode-hop-free tuning greater than 20 GHz, instantaneous linewidth less than 10 kHz, and frequency stability below 100 MHz/K, along with a...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Wavelength References Incorporated for $23,570.00 on July 13, 2026, under a total small business set-aside. The order covers two narrow-band, wavelength-locked laser systems—one locked at 1530 nm and one at 1550 nm—for use in NIST's metropolitan quantum network to evaluate phase stabilization approaches. Each system must deliver linewidth less than 5 kHz at 3 dB, power output exceeding 25 mW, at least 60 dB optical...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $56,424.60 firm fixed-price purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc. on September 2, 2025, for a tunable laser system operating in the 1300nm O Band. The contract, identified as OU68-25-NEW-172, supports NIST's Physical Measurements Lab Quantum & Nanophotonics Group and their research into microresonator optical frequency combs for photonic in-memory computing acceleration. The laser specifications include a continuous...
- 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 National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Stable Laser Systems Inc. for $182,304 on September 11, 2026 under a total small business set-aside. Place of performance is Boulder, Colorado. The order procures one ultra-stable telecom laser operating at 1550.12 nanometers wavelength with 1 Hz or narrower linewidth, frequency stability of 4×10⁻¹⁵ at 1 second and 7×10⁻¹⁵ at 10 seconds, 10 milliwatts or greater optical output power, and frequency-locking capability...
- <p>The National Institute of Standards and Technology issued a purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc. for a continuously tunable laser with PDH module valued at $64,950.00, awarded August 31, 2026. Place of performance is Germany. The order carries an ultimate completion date of March 15, 2027. Pricing is firm fixed price.</p>
The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Santec USA Corp for a fiber-coupled widely tunable laser on September 9, 2026, with a ceiling value of $64,864.90. This is a Total Small Business set-aside. The laser system will be delivered to Japan. The order procures a turnkey fiber-coupled widely tunable laser for interferometric displacement measurement and mass and force metrology standards development. The system must deliver polarized light through a polarization-maintaining fiber with FC-APC connector, provide a wavelength tuning range of at least 160 nanometers including 1550 nanometers with accuracy better than 2 picometers, support continuous scanning exceeding 150 nanometers per second, maintain 10 milliwatts output power at 1550 nanometers, incorporate coherence control with linewidth broadening to greater than 30 megahertz without mode-hopping, and achieve spontaneous self-emission ratio greater than 60 decibels and side-mode suppression ratio greater than 50 decibels. A minimum one-year warranty from acceptance is required. Ultimate completion is January 12, 2027.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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Solicitation for a Fiber Coupled Widely Tunable Laser | 1333ND26QNB680381 | Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology | Solicitation 2/3 | 7/24/26, 1:52 PM | |
Award Notice for a Fiber Coupled Widely Tunable Laser | 1333ND26PNB680250 | Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology | Award Notice 3/3 | 9/9/26, 2:30 PM | |
Sources Sought Notice for a Fiber Coupled Widely Tunable Laser | NIST-SS26-155 | Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology | Pre-Solicitation 1/3 | 7/16/26, 1:36 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $64.9k | 9/9/26 |