Purchase Order DOCSB134117SU0480

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Rpmc Lasers Inc., a small business, to deliver one (1) long-wave distributed feedback (DFB) quantum cascade laser (QCL) in the amount of $32,563.00. This laser must meet specific technical requirements, including operating in continuous-wave mode at a wavelength of 17.2 ± 0.2 microns with a minimum output power of 1 mW. The contract has a period of performance...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $30.1K purchase order to Longwave Photonics LLC, a minority-owned small business specializing in terahertz quantum cascade laser (QCL) technology, for the delivery of a QCL laser module. The contract, awarded on April 11, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of July 26, 2025, fulfills NIST's solicitation for a distributed feedback QCL array compatible with an existing LWP-EASY-QCL-HP system. The module is specified to...

The Office of Naval Research awarded a $1.42M definitive contract to Forward Photonics LLC, a small disadvantaged business based in Woburn, Massachusetts, for the development of high-power quantum cascade laser arrays with on-chip beam combining. Structured as a cost-plus-fixed-fee arrangement, the contract was awarded on July 25, 2019, with a completion deadline of July 25, 2023. The work was performed at the contractor's Woburn facility and represents part of the Navy's investment in...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $72,675 firm fixed-price purchase order to Daylight Solutions Inc. on September 12, 2024, for the procurement and delivery of one External Cavity Quantum Cascade Laser (EC-QCL) operating at 4530 nanometers wavelength. This specialized mid-infrared laser system will support NIST's Optical Measurements Group in conducting laser spectroscopy of radiocarbon dioxide as part of the organization's scientific research initiatives. The...

This contract, awarded by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract with Transwave Photonics, LLC to develop a high brightness mid-wave infrared (MWIR) coherent beam combiner based on quantum cascade laser photonic integrated circuits (QCL-PIC). The total value of this firm-fixed-price purchase order contract is $111,436.65, with a period of performance ending on February 24, 2021. As a total small...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency within the Department of Commerce, awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Daylight Solutions Inc. to provide two separate systems of high-power tunable mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers (QCLs). This $201,746.04 contract supports NIST's CHIPS project on fast IR metrology of cure kinetics for advanced packaging. Daylight Solutions Inc. is a manufacturer of mid-infrared laser systems and components, and...

Longwave Photonics LLC, an Asian-Pacific American-owned small business based in Mountain View, California, was awarded an $82.5K Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract by a civilian federal agency on April 28, 2022, for the development of a high-power terahertz quantum-cascade vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL) based local oscillator. The contract, structured as a firm fixed-price definitive contract with a total small business set-aside designation,...

This federal contract award was made by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy to Boston Electronics Corporation, a for-profit distributor of advanced electro-optical components and specialized systems. The $16,704.98 firm fixed-price purchase order is for a high-power, continuous-wave, distributed feedback quantum cascade laser (RT-CW-DFB-QCL-40) that can be tuned to and through 1927.3 cm-1 for nitric oxide sensing applications. This contract has a total small business...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract worth up to $749,999.00 to Max-Ir Labs Incorporated, a Woman-Owned Small Business, for the development of Midwave Infrared (MWIR) Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCL) for thermal monitoring. This Small Business Innovation Research (STTR) Phase II contract was set aside for total small businesses. Max-Ir Labs specializes in infrared technologies for commercial and defense applications,...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Longwave Photonics LLC, a minority-owned small business. The $125,000 contract is for the development of a high-power, frequency-tunable, phase/frequency-locked, single-mode, external cavity terahertz quantum cascade laser (ECT-QCL) system. This system is intended to serve as a local oscillator source for terahertz heterodyne receivers used in NASA and...