The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $410,750 firm fixed price purchase order to Light Conversion-Usa, Inc. to deliver a high-power, high repetition-rate near-infrared femtosecond laser system. The solicitation sought a laser capable of producing a minimum of 140 watts output power, 0.5 millijoule pulse energy, and user-selectable repetition rates from megahertz to single-shot for terahertz pulse generation and spectroscopy applications. Light Conversion-Usa, Inc. will...
The Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service awarded a $625,050 firm fixed price purchase order to Ekspla-USA Inc. of Bozeman, Montana. This award, set aside for the Small Business Administration's 8(a) Business Development Program, will provide one high energy nanosecond pulsed laser system capable of producing at least 10 joules per pulse at 1064 nanometers with a repetition rate of 10 Hertz. The laser and additional items including a standalone chiller, end user serviceable...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a $287,790 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Light Conversion-Usa, Inc. to provide a tabletop pulsed ultraviolet light source for integration into an atom probe tomography (APT) instrument. The light source must meet technical specifications including a center wavelength between 200-210 nm, repetition rate of 50-200 kHz, pulse duration less than 1 nanosecond, and pulse energy over 100 nanojoules with flux stability...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a firm fixed price purchase order to RPMC Lasers Inc., a for-profit small business, to provide two Alcor 920 nanometer (nm) and 1064 nm dual output 2 watt femtosecond lasers, including installation and a 2-year warranty, for a total potential value of $235,074.00. This award was not set aside for any type of small business. The lasers are...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) to Nuphoton Technologies, Inc., a minority-owned manufacturer of fiber lasers and amplifiers. The contract has a ceiling value of $38,370.00 and a completion date of November 15, 2024. It is for the procurement of a 1064 nm pulsed fiber laser that meets specific requirements to support GRL's ELS3D project, which aims to design and...
The U.S. Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $389,258.72 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Coherent NA, Inc., a subsidiary of Coherent Inc., for the delivery of one (1) tunable pulse laser system. The laser system must consist of a fundamental pulsed laser providing over 60W of average power at 1035nm, and an optical system for parametric amplification and wavelength conversion to generate ultrafast pulses tunable from 325nm to 2500nm. The contract has no...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $45,357.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Lavision, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of laser imaging systems and measurement equipment. The contract is for the delivery of a portable, compact, pulsed, q-switched Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Nd:YAG) particle image velocimetry (PIV) laser to support research activities at the NASA Glenn Research Center. The laser must meet specific technical...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $360,279.60 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Coherent NA, Inc., a subsidiary of Coherent Inc., for specialized multi-wavelength dual lasers, fixed-wavelength lasers, and related optoelectronic equipment. This is a non-competitive, brand-name acquisition conducted under simplified acquisition procedures without any set-aside restrictions. The equipment will support...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Nlight Inc., a leading provider of high power semiconductor and fiber lasers for industrial, microfabrication, aerospace and defense applications. The contract, valued at $597,473.58, is for the design and fabrication of a diode pumped Er:YAG micro-chip laser capable of varied repetition rates and high pulse energies using a single emitter-based high brightness pump. This laser system is intended to...
This is a sole-source, firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to Newport Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced technology products. The contract is for two Spectra-Physics ultrafast lasers - the Mai Tai HP DS and Insight X3 Dual - to be used with NIAID's Leica SP8 multiphoton confocal microscope system. These specialized lasers, costing a total of...