Purchase Order 1333ND26PNB680461
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- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Stable Laser Systems Inc. for $95,981 on July 3, 2025, to deliver a high-finesse, dual-wavelength reference cavity system. Performance occurs in Boulder, Colorado. The system must achieve cavity finesse larger than 100,000 at wavelengths 555.8 nm and 894.6 nm with an integrated linewidth of 15 kHz or less, using Ultra-Low Expansion glass mirrors with specified coating reflectivity and dimensional constraints. The...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology issued a purchase order to Stable Laser Systems Inc. for $58,426.00 on September 10, 2026, to supply a multiwavelength tunable stable optical cavity system, with completion targeted for January 12, 2027. Work is performed in Boulder, Colorado. The order calls for one new optical reference cavity in a vacuum package with finesse greater than 10,000 at wavelengths of 852 nm, 510 nm, 638 nm, and 656 nm, including zero crossing temperature...
- The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $265,169 firm fixed price purchase order to Stable Laser Systems Inc. of Boulder, Colorado to deliver two frequency stabilized laser systems. The solicitation sought quotations for lasers capable of achieving a wavelength of 1550.12nm, Allan deviation below 1x10^-14 at 1 second and 1x10^-13 at 10 seconds, remaining phase-locked for over 24 hours with less than 20kHz frequency drift over 24 hours, and additional...
- This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Stable Laser Systems Inc., a small business manufacturer located in Boulder, Colorado. The $94,367.00 contract is for the delivery of a high-finesse optical reference cavity that will operate simultaneously at three wavelengths (1560 nm, 1060 nm, and 780 nm) with a cavity finesse exceeding 150,000 in each wavelength region. This specialized laboratory equipment will support NIST's...
- 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 Stable Laser Systems Inc., doing business as Stable Laser Systems, a $88,137 firm fixed price purchase order to deliver an optical cavity. As the leading federal agency supporting measurement science, standards, and technology, NIST's mission includes advancing precision measurement which this contract aims to support. Stable Laser will serve as the prime contractor to produce the requested optical...
- The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at thirty-one thousand two hundred ninety-four dollars to Stable Laser Systems Inc., doing business as Stable Laser Systems, for a Fiber-coupled optical cavity. Per the solicitation, Stable Laser Systems will provide one Fiber-coupled optical cavity along with documentation demonstrating the product meets minimum specifications, firm fixed price quotations, packaging, and...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $71,917 firm fixed price purchase order to Stable Laser Systems Inc. for the delivery of two Stable Optical Reference Cavity Instruments. Per the solicitation, the instruments will be integrated into home-built cavity ring-down spectrometers to support the Isotopic Composition and Precision Molecular Spectroscopy project. This project aims to perform precision molecular spectroscopy on gas-phase carbon dioxide samples to aid in the...
- The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $133,150.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract to Stable Laser Systems Inc., a small business manufacturer of precision laser systems and optical components located in Boulder, Colorado. The contract is for the delivery of a compact, high performance cavity-stabilized laser system to be operated from a mobile laboratory, with performance equivalent to state-of-the-art cavity-stabilized lasers used in...
- 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 issued a purchase order to Stable Laser Systems Inc. on September 10, 2026, for an ultrastable optical reference cavity system with a ceiling value of $99,689.00 and a completion date of March 14, 2027. Performance is located in Boulder, Colorado. The system operates at a primary wavelength of 1396 nm with thermal noise fractional frequency stability of 6×10⁻¹⁶, enabling stabilized laser linewidth below 1 Hz, with secondary wavelength capability at 689 nm. The cavity includes invar mounting, temperature control better than 1 millikelvin per day, ion pump, temperature controller, vacuum valve, and anti-reflective-coated windows. Delivery, installation, training, and government acceptance are due within approximately 22 weeks, with 12-month warranty coverage and 3,000 operating-hour support.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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Ultrastable Optical Reference Cavity System | NB688000-26-01743 | Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology | Solicitation 2/2 | 6/12/26, 5:24 PM | |
Ultrastable Optical Reference Cavity System | NB688000-26-01743 | Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology | Pre-Solicitation 1/2 | 5/19/26, 5:14 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $99.7k | 9/10/26 |