SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Asynchronous Optical Sampling (ASOPS) System
- Notice Date
- 1/25/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- AMD-SS17-17
- Archive Date
- 2/15/2017
- Point of Contact
- Forest Crumpler, Phone: 3019756753
- E-Mail Address
-
forest.crumpler@nist.gov
(forest.crumpler@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- INTRODUCTION This is a Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding the availability and capability of qualified business sources. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large, foreign, and small businesses. Small businesses are defined under the associated NAICS code for this effort, 334516, as those domestic sources having 1,000 employees or less. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. NOTE: This notice is strictly for obtaining Market Research. There will be no Question & Answer period under this Sources Sought Notice. BACKGROUND/PURPOSE The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks information on commercial vendors that are capable of providing an Asynchronous Optical Sampling (ASOPS) System to support the measurement of nanophotonic and energy devices in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) user facility. The system will be sited in the CNST NanoLab as a resource for ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy and microscopy experiments, as well as for the generation and detection of terahertz radiation. The system will also be accessible to researchers in the CNST and to outside users via collaboration. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed and specifications are developed for an Asynchronous Optical Sampling (ASOPS) System that can meet NIST's minimum requirements, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a Purchase Order. If at least two qualified small businesses are identified during this market research stage, then any competitive procurement that resulted would be conducted as a small business set-aside. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)/Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) enables science and industry by providing essential measurement methods, instrumentation, and standards to support all phases of nanotechnology development, from discovery to production. The Energy Research Group within the CNST plans to conduct several time-resolved optical pump-probe spectroscopic measurements on novel materials and systems that require the acquisition of a short pulse, high power and high repetition rate Asynchronous Optical Sampling (ASOPS) System. Ultrafast optical spectroscopic measurements include numerous measurement techniques to study spectral and temporal dynamics in various optical, optoelectronic and optomechanical materials and systems. These techniques typically rely on measuring the response of a material system with high-resolution (in time or frequency domain) upon optical or electrical excitation. For example: in semiconductor systems - these responses typically arise due to electron (hole) transfer, relaxation or recombination processes; and facilitate fundamental understanding of charge transfer to allow development of optical devices with faster speeds or solar cells with higher efficiencies. The acquisition of the ASOPS system will support research in the CNST user facility and will be used as a shared resource accessible to researchers from industry, academia, NIST, and other government agencies through collaboration. The major components and functional requirements of the new Asynchronous Optical Sampling (ASOPS) System are specified as follows: 1.The ASOPS system must consist of two femtosecond ti:sapphire lasers producing <30 fsec pulses at 1 GHz repetition rate at a center wavelength of 800 nm. The two ti:sapphire lasers must deliver a time-averaged power of >1.2 W each. 2.The ASOPS system must include an optical triggering module to temporally synchronize the femtosecond pulse trains from the two ti:sapphire lasers with a temporal jitter of <30 fsec (between 0.1 kHz - 100 kHz):. 3.The ASOPS system must include the necessary optics and electronics to both stabilize and modulate the repetition rate of the ti:sapphire lasers. The system must also include the ability to perform ASOPS offset stabilization throughout the pump-probe temporal delay range. 4.The ASOPS system must exhibit a temporal resolution across the full measurement window (e.g. 1 nsec corresponding to 1GHz repetition rate) to be <50 fsec for an offset frequency between 500 Hz and 5 kHz. 5.The ASOPS system must exhibit an offset-frequency range between 0 kHz and 50 kHz. 6.The femtosecond laser pulses from one of the two ti:sapphire lasers must be carrier-envelope-phase (CEP) locked using an f-2f interferometer or an equivalent mechanism for future integration of a frequency-comb generation unit. 7.The ASOPS system must include an optical fiber for spectral broadening using the CEP locked ti:sapphire laser. 8.The complete ASOPS system including the peripherals must be controlled through a single software interface and compatible in their operation. This control and data acquisition software must be provided by the vendor. 9.The control/acquisition software for the system must be able to interface with a computer using an ethernet or a USB connection, and must be able to acquire time-resolved pump-probe data, including providing the ability to continuously the sweep the delay range, or step and dwell through the temporal range. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large, foreign, and small businesses. Small businesses are defined under the associated NAICS code for this effort, 334516, as those domestic sources having 1,000 employees or less. Please include your company's size classification in any response to this notice. Companies that manufacture Asynchronous Optical Sampling (ASOPS) System are requested to email a detailed report describing their abilities to forest.crumpler@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The response should include achievable specifications and any other information relevant to your product or capabilities. Also, the following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1. Name of the company that manufactures the system components for which specifications are provided. 2. Name of company(ies) that are authorized to sell the system components, their addresses, and a point of contact for the company (name, phone number, fax number and email address). 3. Indication of number of days, after receipt of order that is typical for delivery of such systems. 4. Indication of whether each instrument for which specifications are sent to forest.crumpler@nist.gov are currently on one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts and, if so, the GSA FSS contract number(s). 5. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in developing its minimum specifications and finalizing its market research.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
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