SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Tunable, High Repetition Spectroscopy Laser System
- Notice Date
- 3/2/2017
- 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-ss17-26
- Archive Date
- 3/25/2017
- Point of Contact
- Lynda M Horton, Phone: 3019753725
- E-Mail Address
-
Lynda.Horton@nist.gov
(Lynda.Horton@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks information on commercial vendors that are capable of providing a Tunable, High Repetition Rate Ultrafast Spectroscopy Laser System. 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. NOTE: This notice is strictly for obtaining Market Research. There will be no Question & Answer period under this Sources Sought Notice. General system requirements: The Engineering Physics Division (EPD) provides dimensional and electronics metrology and standards for advanced manufacturing. The Division's overall strategy is to improve measurement science and to develop the advanced measurements and standards needed by current and emerging science and technology-intensive industries. The EPD's Nanoelectronics Group (NG) develops and advances novel measurements that combine and correlate optical and electrical methods, supporting the measurement and standards needs of the electronics, semiconductor, energy, health, defense, and other industries. To meet mission requirements, the EPD needs to procure a laser system that emits femtosecond optical pulses over a wide range of wavelengths, with enough energy to produce a significant nonlinear response. This acquisition will allow the NG to expand its measurement capabilities to ultrafast nonlinear optical spectroscopy techniques. In order to perform femtosecond time-resolved optical studies on a wide range of possible electronic materials, it is crucial to have wide tunability in wavelength. Tunable ultrashort pulses are typically generated using an optical parametric amplifier (OPA) which is pumped by a source of amplified optical pulses. The pump laser in the past has typically been a Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier, but recently alternatives based on other gain media have become available. These offer superior reliability, lifetime, stability, space requirements (footprint), and energy efficiency. They also offer other useful features such as variable repetition rate, variable pulse duration, and higher average power. In order to minimize the amount of time spent aligning and maintaining the laser, a turnkey pump laser/OPA system based on the best technology currently available (a Yb-doped gain medium) is required. To achieve the best possible signal-to-noise ratio, a high repetition rate of 1 MHz is needed, but in order to minimize artifacts from long-lived excitations or thermal effects in certain samples, the repetition rate must be tunable down to single shot operation. To enable future expansion of capabilities to include pumping multiple OPA's, the pump laser needs to produce an average power of 40 W or greater at 1 MHz repetition rate. Requirements:   The Contractor shall documentation to demonstrate their products capabilities for a fiber amplified laser and OPA, to include installation. The pulsed laser system is comprised of a pump laser and an optical parametric amplifier. Pump Laser: • Pump laser must operate at a center frequency of 1035 nm ± 5 nm. • Pump laser must have an output of 40 Watts at 400 fs, 40 µJ per pulse, and a repetition rate of 1 MHz. • Pump laser output must be variable from single shot operation to 1 MHz repetition rate. • Must provide a TEM00 spatial mode at the output of the Laser. • Must have a vertical output polarization direction with a polarization ratio of at least 100:1. • Must provide output power stability of less than 2% rms. • Must provide output pulse energy stability of less than 2% rms. • Must provide onboard pulse width and energy monitoring. • Must provide onboard data logger storing of laser parameters values. Optical Parametric Amplifier (OPA): • Must be able to operate with the pump laser at pump pulse energies greater than 20 µJ. • The signal output from the OPA must be tunable from 630 nm to 1025 nm. The idler output must be tunable from 1045 to 2600 nm. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed and specifications are developed for the instruments 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. 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 1000 employees or less. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. Companies that manufacture the required system with the above capabilities are requested to email a detailed report describing their abilities to Lynda.Horton@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The report 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(s) 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 Lynda.Horton@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. 6. Manufacturers are requested to describe their ability to provide a system meeting these requirements, including as much information as possible concerning temperature, permissible heat load, experimental volume, vibration levels, and available options. Point of Contact Lynda Horton Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 975-3725, Fax (301) 975-8753, Email Lynda.Horton@Nist.gov
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN04421876-W 20170304/170303000243-4ae7898ee66daffe0a4c896224bd4ba9 (fbodaily.com)
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