SOLICITATION NOTICE
60 -- mid-infared-compatible optical fiber - Package #1
- Notice Date
- 12/13/2011
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 334417
— Electronic Connector Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- NB686040-12-00763
- Archive Date
- 12/31/2011
- Point of Contact
- Willa Mayns, Phone: 3034977305
- E-Mail Address
-
mayns@nist.gov
(mayns@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- commercial clauses The National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, CO. has a requirement for mid-infrared-compatible optical fiber in order to implement our superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) at mid-infrared wavelengths (3-4 microns). EMAIL ALL QUOTES TO: mayns@nist.gov NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE CLAUSES THAT APPLY TO THIS SOLICITATION ARE ATTACHED C-connectorized vacuum mid-infrared fiber feedthrough; and one FC-connectorized, standard telecom fiber patch cord, 2m long, with the same stainless steel jacketing as the mid-infrared fiber. Our SNSPDs are quite small (typically 10 microns wide, but as small as 1 micron wide) and must be operated at cryogenic temperatures (4 K or less). To couple light from a source or experiment at room temperature to the SNSPDs at cryogenic temperatures, we require optical fibers both inside and outside the cryostat, as well as a vacuum feedthrough to couple these two fibers. We have previously demonstrated these detectors to work well in the near-infrared (wavelengths < 2 microns) by using conventional telecom-wavelength optical fiber (SMF-28, designed to be optimal at 1.55 micron wavelength). However, we have been unable to test SNSPDs at wavelengths > 2 microns, because SMF-28 fiber does not transmit light at these longer wavelengths. TECHNICIAL SPECIFICATIONS: 1. Two fiber patch cables, each 2 m long, that are designed to be single-mode at a wavelength of 3 microns. a. Each fiber patch cable must transmit >90% of light for wavelengths of 300 nm - 4500 nm. b. Fiber core must be 10 micron diameter or less. c. Fiber patch cables and jackets must be compatible with cryogenic operation, down to temperatures of ~1 K. d. Fiber patch cables must be robust and not break easily with normal handling. Thus we require the patch cables be encased in jackets made of stainless steel or other similarly robust material that is also compatible with cryogenic operation. 2. One connectorized vacuum fiber feedthrough that will be used to connect one of the fiber patch cables at room temperature (outside the cryostat, where it will be used to collect light from the experiment) with the other fiber patch cable (inside the cryostat, where it will deliver light to our detector). a. Feedthrough must transmit >90% of light for wavelengths of 300 nm - 4500 nm. b. Feedthrough must contain the same fiber (identical materials, core diameter, and connectors) as the fiber patch cables listed above, to ensure compatibility of the full system. c. Full system of one patch cable, connected to feedthrough, connected to second patch cable, must transmit >90% of light for wavelengths of 300 nm - 4500 nm. 3. One SMF-28 fiber patch cable with the same stainless steel jacket as the patch cables in 1, to be used for testing in our cryostat. DELIVERABLES SCHEDULE: 4-5 weeks ARO for the mid-infrared fiber patch cables and fiber feedthrough, and 2-3 weeks ARO for the SMF-28 fiber patch cable.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado, 80305, United States
- Zip Code: 80305
- Zip Code: 80305
- Record
- SN02637928-W 20111215/111213234057-e903c7580e4abb7d373b6a910483afed (fbodaily.com)
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