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58 -- OPTICAL-FIBER LASER SYSTEM SOL NB815940904097DT DUE 051099 POC Doris Turner, Purchasing Agent, 303-497-3872; FAX: 303- 497-3163 E-MAIL: NOAA; MASC Acquisition Management, Doris.P.Turner@noaa.gov. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Optoelectronic Manufacturing Group requires a mode-locked, tunable, erbium-doped optical-fiber laser system for ultrafast measurements on semiconductor and dielectric components and systems. The laser system must be a turn-key system and mode-locking must be self-starting using a semiconductor saturable absorber. The laser system must be capable of supplying transform limited, pedestal free, hyperbolic secant squared, optical pulses with less than 100 femtoseconds (0.1 picoseconds) full-width half-maximum (FWHM) pulse widths at the point of exit from the laser system and less than 205 femtosecond full width pulses at 10 dB down from the pulse peak. Each 100 fs pulse must provide greater than 2 nJ total energy into free space at the point of exit from the laser system. The laser must have center frequency tunability from 1530 nm to 1560 nm while providing greater than 2 nJ pulses over the entire tuning range. Tuning control must be provided using a micrometer or other control knob which protrudes from the laser housing. The laser system must produce pulses at a frequency less than 10 MHZ. The laser system timing jitter must be less than 1.0 ps using an integration period of 1 millisecond. Temperature control for rate stability is required. The output of the laser must be collimated with a spot size greater than or equal to 700 micrometers. The output spatial mode must be TEM00. The polarization at the output of the laser system must be linear, controllable, and provide capability of greater than 50/1 polarization extinction. The polarization control and adjustment must be accessible outside the main laser system housing. The pulse-to-pulse amplitude noise must be less than 10 raised to the minus 5th power times the peak pulse power or RIN (relative intensity noise) less than -114 dB/Hz. The fiber-laser sub-system that generates the initial solitons must be manufactured using all polarization-maintaining optical fiber. An optical pick off coupler routed to a photodiode to provide an external trigger signal is also required. The laser and any erbium doped sub-systems or erbium-doped fiber amplifiers must be pumped with stabilized semiconductor laser diode pumps. The pump current for the soliton source must be controllable from the front panel of the laser. An LED display of the pump current in mA must be incorporated in the front panel of the laser system. The entire laser system must be rack-mountable and consist of no more than 2 separate component housings. Any fiber connections between separately packaged laser sub-systems must be cabled. All customer accessible fiber connectors used in the system must be FC/PC or FC/APC. Finally, we require delivery of the laser system within 3 months after receipt of order. Interested sources proposing to supply the equipment specified must submit a written qualification statement clearly establishing capability to meet the above requirements within 15 days from the date of this synopsis. The qualification statements will be used to determine the need for competitive bids. In the absence of other qualified sources, it is the intent of the Government to negotiate a sole source contract under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1) with Calmar Optcom, Inc., 958 San Leandro Ave., Suite 700, Mountain View, CA 94043 as this source is considered to be the only responsible source and no other items will satisfy agency requirements. Responses must be received on or before May 10, 1999. No RFQ package is available. This announcement is being issued under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures, FAR Part 13 (NTE $100,000.00). Agency level protest procedures are at http://www.doc.gov/oam/conops/#REFERENCE. FAR Clauses in full text are at http://www.ARNET.gov/far/. Posted 04/23/99 (D-SN323996). (0113)

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