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66 -- EXTERNAL CAVITY OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOUBLER SOL NB847000000203MB DUE 062800 POC Michelle Bernal, Purchasing Agent, (303) 497-3983 or FAX (303) 497-3163 E-MAIL: NOAA; MASC Acquisition Management, Michelle.A.Bernal@noaa.gov. The National Institute of Standards & Technology(NIST) has a requirement for two external cavity optical frequency doublers from 626 nm to 313 nm with servo electronics package. This will be used in research toward constructing quantum logic gates for quantum computers and advanced frequency standards which needs to convert visible laser radiation to the ultraviolet by frequency doubling. This system shall, as a minimum, include the following complete critical specifications: = 1) Compact unidirectional ring geometry consisting of 2 mirrors and a piezo-driven prism. Active stabilization of the cavity length is accomplished by a servo-loop and the piezo-driven prism. (This design ensures high stability to environmental vibrations and noise, and it provides a geometry invariant output beam that does not vary its pointing direction as the wavelength is changed.) 2) Servo electronics based on the Pound-Drever-Hall rf sideband technique. 3) Ultraviolet conversion efficiency greater than 12% at 0.8 W input. 4) Scanning range greater than 60 GHz with maximum scan rate of 10 GHz/s. 5) Beam pointing stability less than 2 microradians/=B0C . 6) Astigmatic compensation of the ultraviolet output. The difference in the horizontal or vertical waist at any point along the beam should be less than 10%. There is no formal bid package. Interested sources may submit a written qualification statement, literature, along with a proposal by fax or by mail on or before close of business June 28, 2000. Please include delivery date, F.O.B. point, business size, Federal Taxpayer Identification Number, and Duns and Bradstreet Number. The award decision will be based upon the best value to the Government, with technical merit and past performance being significantly more important than price. This procurement is being conducted per FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. Terms and Conditions and agency level protest procedures can be fond on web site http: oamweb.osec.doc.gov/conops #REFERENCE. Hard copy in full text available from office address and phone number listed in notice. Technical questions can be directed to John Bollinger at (303) 497-5861. Anticipated award date June 29, 2000. Posted 06/08/00 (D-SN462701). (0160)

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