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66 -- HIGH REPETITION RATE, HIGH AVERAGE POWER, TUNABLE, ULTRAFAST LASER SYSTEM SOL 52SBNB7C1103 POC Diane Loeb, Contract Specialist (301) 975-6399, Lisa Jandovitz, Contracting Officer (301) 975-6344 WEB: NIST Contracts Homepage, http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/contract.htm. E-MAIL: NIST Contracts Office, Contract@nist.gov. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has a requirement to purchase a high repetition rate, high average power, tunable, ultrafast laser system consisting of a high power, cw Ar-ion pump laser, a mode-locked Ti-sapphire oscillator, a high repetition rate Ti-sapphire regenerative amplifier, and a near-IR optical parametric amplifier. The signal from the optical parametric amplifier will tune from 1100 to 1600 nm with one optics set. The idler must be within 50% of photon balance with the signal over the wavelength range of 1600-2400 nm. The output from the optical parametric amplifier must be appropriate as a pump source for a NIST-built, wide-bandwidth, tunable IR source based on difference frequency mixing between the signal and idler. The system shall operate at an adjustable repetition rate from 10 Hz to at least 250 kHz. The peak signal-pulse-power (signal-pulse-energy/pulse temporal full-width at half maximum) from the optical parametric amplifier, at 250 kHz, shall be at least 1.5 MWwhen installed at NIST. Both the signal and idler shall have at least 150 wavenumbers of bandwidth, good mode quality (M-squared less than 2.0), and be linearly polarized (at least 100:1). The signal time-bandwidth-product shall be less than 0.88. The vendor shall provide all components necessary for operation of the system, and shall install and demonstrate performance at NIST prior to acceptance. The vendor shall provide for training of NIST personnel in operation of the system. The system shall be warranted for at least one year, with at least a 2 year, 3000 hour warrantee on the tube of the Ar-ion pump laser. FOB Point is Gaithersburg, MD. Contract completion shall be within three months from date of award. All responsible sources may submit a proposal shich shall be considered by the agency. (0066)

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