Purchase Order HHSF223201610240P

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order contract for a WS8 wavemeter to Toptica Photonics Inc., a manufacturer of high-end laser systems for scientific and industrial applications. The $98,855.00 award was made on June 9, 2020, with a completion date of November 12, 2020. The wavemeter, with specific technical requirements including a measurement range of 330-1180 nm and high accuracy, was sole-sourced to Toptica Photonics as...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order contract valued at $157,760.00 to Toptica Photonics Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, for the delivery of a wavemeter system. The system consists of a tunable laser wavelength meter with 8 input channels, an iodine-stabilized Nd:YAG laser, and associated control and integration hardware. The Government determined that Toptica Photonics was the sole source that could meet the...

The U.S. Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $147,390.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Toptica Photonics Inc., a private manufacturer of high-end laser systems, for a wavemeter system. The wavemeter system consists of a wavelength meter, photonic crystal switch, and wavelength stabilization control, to support research and development programs across the Department of Defense, NASA, and other agencies. The procurement was not set aside for any small...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded Fibertek, Inc. a $124,817 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to develop a high-speed, non-mechanical frequency locking module that enables shot-to-shot frequency switching of single-frequency lasers at up to 3 kHz with high spectral resolution. This technology is critical for improving the wavelength switching speeds needed to fully exploit the capabilities of airborne and space-based Differential Absorption...

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...

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...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Omega Optics, Inc., a minority-owned small business located in Austin, Texas. The $122,580 firm-fixed-price contract is for the research and development of a novel 2D tunable coherent combined vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (TCC-VCSEL) array monolithically integrated with a surface-normal slow-light photonic crystal waveguide array. This novel design...

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 Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $29,756 firm fixed price purchase order to Oewaves, Inc. of Pasadena, California. The contract is to deliver a tunable laser with an ultralow linewidth of below 7 Hz, and potentially below 1 Hz, over the telecommunications wavelength band of 1500-1600 nm. NIST requires the laser in support of its research on photonic crystals and efforts to control and probe such structures at the quantum level. The sole...

The U.S. Army Materiel Command awarded a $97,824 firm-fixed-price purchase order to TECH Service Solutions LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for two fast tunable C-band laser sources to support integrated photonics testing. The laser sources must meet stringent technical requirements, including a wavelength span of 1480 to 1640 nanometers, high output power, and rapid wavelength tuning capability. This award was made under a pre-solicitation posted by the Army Contracting...