This is a SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Program Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Computational Physics, Inc. for the development of a solid state, rapidly tunable filter based on liquid crystal (LC) etalon technology. The key innovation is reducing the tuning time of the LC etalon from a few milliseconds to 100-500 microseconds, with the primary application being integration into a space-based LIDAR (Light Detection and...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract worth $221,667.64 to Coherent NA, Inc. for a Continuously Tunable Pulsed Laser. This laser will be used by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) for their ELS3D project in the photonics lab. The contract has specific performance requirements for the laser, including a tunable range of 600 nm to 2600 nm, adjustable pulse width from 100s of femtoseconds...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, for $177,245.00. The contract is for the delivery of tunable lasers and tunable locking lasers, with a completion date of May 17, 2022. This award was not set aside for any specific business category. The original sources sought notice indicated the government was conducting market research to identify potential sources for these...
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...
Toptica Photonics Inc. was awarded a $104,006 firm fixed price purchase order as a total small business set-aside to deliver two 1550nm tunable lasers to the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology by February 2024. The lasers will support NIST's research programs, as specified in the March 2023 solicitation requesting these products. As a manufacturer of high-end laser systems and photonics components, Toptica will utilize its expertise to provide the specialized...
The Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at $702,897.50 to Toptica Photonics Inc. to deliver a Rydberg rubidium laser system with difference frequency comb lock. Per the original solicitation, the Naval Research Laboratory sought a turnkey laser system to support quantum memory experiments using Rydberg states. The system delivered by Toptica Photonics includes a continuous wave frequency doubled laser at 480 nanometers with 800...
This is a $46,325 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to Toptica Photonics Inc. on August 23, 2022. The contract is for the delivery of a 1550 nm wavelength continuously tunable laser by May 30, 2023. Toptica Photonics Inc. is a privately held technology company that develops and manufactures high-end laser systems for scientific and industrial applications. They have experience as both a prime contractor and...
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc., a small business manufacturer, for a 435-nanometer continuous wave laser. The $137,235 contract is intended to support research programs by providing a laser system with specifications including a single-mode, TEM00 output at greater than 0.5 watts, and a secondary 870-nanometer output coupled to a polarization-maintaining fiber with over 4...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to Toptica Photonics Inc., a manufacturer of laser systems and photonics instrumentation, for the delivery of a tunable diode laser system with a wavemeter. The $57,900 contract does not have a set-aside designation. The requirement originated from a competitive solicitation seeking commercial items from small businesses. As a provider of specialized laser technologies to federal agencies, Toptica Photonics...
Fibertek, Inc. was awarded a $124,289 firm-fixed-price contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract aims to develop a novel, space-qualifiable, dual-pulse 1064 nm laser system as a pump laser for airborne and space-based trace gas Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) remote sensing systems. The laser system is designed to meet performance goals exceeding the requirements...