SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- Upgrade for an existing Coherent 890 laser including a Verdi V18 (Nd:YV04 laser)
- Notice Date
- 7/5/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 334515
— Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Mountain Region Acquisition Division, 325 Broadway - MC3, Boulder, CO, 80305-3328
- ZIP Code
- 80305-3328
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-NB848000600127
- Response Due
- 7/14/2006
- Archive Date
- 7/29/2006
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) requires an upgrade to an existing Coherent 890 laser. This Commercial upgrade is required in order to undertake a newly funded competence project. NIST requires Ti:Sapphire (Ti:S ) optics, Ti:S pump mirrors, and Ti:S pump power. As part of the NIST competence program, NIST is developing a very high force optical trap with minimum heating, which requires >3 W of laser power at 800 nm, with any added performance increasing NIST?s utility. To do so, there needs to be as much power out of a Ti:S laser as possible. To get the maximum power out of the existing Ti:S laser, NIST needs the highest possible laser pump power at 532 nm. Only Coherent makes an 18 W laser, diode pumped, solid state laser at 532 nm. As part of this project, NIST is refurbishing an existing Coherent 890 laser (S/N 93391425). NIST requires that accompanying this laser installation there be a complete refurbishing of this Ti:S laser, with new optics. Further, the complete system needs to be integrated and the full system shall produce at least 3 watts of laser power at 800 nm. The stiffness of the resultant optical trap is proportional to the laser intensity. It is a requirement for a high force, yet precise optical trap, with excellent stability in trap stiffness, which requires excellent stability in laser intensity noise. The new laser shall be an all solid state, diode pumped, frequency doubled Verdi V18 (Nd:YV04) laser (532 nm), proving single mode operations (M2 <1.1). Argon ion lasers are not compatible with the existing infrastructure (Plumbing, space, and electrical power). Power stability is an important requirement for the end use and power stability of the pump laser and will directly affect the power stability of the Ti:S laser. The laser intensity noise < 0.03% RMS measured over 10 Hz to 1 GHz. This large difference affects the experiments ultimate goals of producing as stiff an optical trap as power. Hence, the project requires the 18 W pump laser, and the following items: Item Number 1 Quantity: 1 Unit: ea Part Number: 1063516 Description: Verdi V18, all solid state diode pumped frequency doubled Nd:YVO4 providing >18 watts of 532 nm. Item Number 2 Quantity: 1 Unit: ea Part Number: 0162-756-04 Description: Optics set 890 HP, mirror set of Coherent 890 Ti:S laser for 790 nm-940 nm Item Number 3 Quantity: 2 Unit: ea Part Number: 0171-707-00 Description: Mirror 45 HR *FS HR RNS .4 Item Number 4 Quantity: 1 Unit: ea Part Number: 0161-714-00 Description: Ti:S Pump Mirror Verdi/Argon*4001 G Item Number 5 Quantity: 1 Unit: ea Part Number: 0161-880-00 Description: Lens: Ti:S High Pump Power *1809Q Item Number 6 Quantity: 1 Unit: ea Part Number: 0157-415-00 Description: 3 Plate BRF Tuning Element *3PI Item Number 7 Quantity: 1 Unit: ea Part Number: 0 Description: Service, travel and labor to refurbish, upgrade and align NIST Coherent 890 for pumping by 18W Verdi and guarantee >3W output. All of the necessary components required to upgrade the existing Ti:Sapphire 890 laser, must be included, along with the Nd:YV04 laser. There is no bid package available. The Government intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, with Coherent, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, under 41 USC 253(c)(1), ?Only one responsible source?. This notice may represent the only official notice of a solicitation. See note 22.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Department of Commerce/National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Mountain Regional Acquisition Division (MRAD), 325 Broadway, MC3, Boulder, CO
- Zip Code: 80305
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 80305
- Record
- SN01082628-W 20060707/060705220239 (fbodaily.com)
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