SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Ultrafast Pulse Shaper
- Notice Date
- 5/18/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 333314
— Optical Instrument and Lens 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
- SB1341-16-RQ-0439
- Archive Date
- 6/8/2016
- 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
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks information on commercial vendors that are capable of providing commercial off-the shelf Ultrafast Pulse Shaper for the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, and specifications developed, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a Purchase Order Ultrafast Pulse Shaper product and installation. 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 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 sensitive ultrafast pump-probe microscopy and spectroscopy measurements that require the use of an ultrafast pulse shaper. The broad bandwidth associated with the pulses from the lasers in the lab get dispersed as they propagate through air and other optical materials such as glass. The ultrafast pulse shaper is required to compensate for all lower order dispersion (first, second, third and fourth) through an automated algorithm and provide bandwidth limited pulses with flat spectral phase across the entire bandwidth of the pulses at the experiment. Besides dispersion compensation, the shaper is also required to have the ability to create other complex pulse shapes such as double pulses and square pulses. The acquisition will also 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 proposed acquisition is to obtain an ultrafast pulse shaper to be used at CNST to facilitate the aforementioned measurements. CNST currently owns a femtosecond laser oscillator (<7 fsec pulse length, 75MHz repetition rate and 500 mW average power), a femtosecond laser amplifier (<5 fsec pulse length, 1 kHz repetition rate and 5 mJ average power) and a hollow-core fiber compressor (<4.5 fsec pulse length, 1 kHz repetition rate and 1.5 mJ average power) all centered at a wavelength of 800 nm. The required ultrafast pulse shaper must be compatible with the oscillator, amplifier and the fiber-compressor. The system should have the following minimum characteristics. 1.The ultrafast pulse shaper must support ≥5 fsec pulses from a femtosecond oscillator working at a repetition rate of 75MHz and a center wavelength of 800 nm. The input power requirements for the ultrafast pulse shaper when working with the femtosecond oscillator must be ≥500 mW (average power). 2.The ultrafast pulse shaper must support ≥20 fsec pulses from a femtosecond amplifier working at a repetition rate of 1kHz and a center wavelength of 800 nm. The input pulse energy requirements for the ultrafast pulse shaper when working with the femtosecond amplifier must be ≥250 µJ (equivalently ≥250 mW average power). 3.The ultrafast pulse shaper must support ≥5 fsec pulses from a hollow core fiber compressor working at a repetition rate of 1kHz and a center wavelength of 800 nm. The input pulse energy requirements for the ultrafast pulse shaper when working with the hollow-core fiber compressor must be ≥250 µJ (equivalently ≥250 mW average power). 4.The ultrafast pulse shaper must be able to provide the ability to perform both amplitude and phase shaping. Polarization shaping in addition to amplitude and phase control would allow users to have complete control over the property of the optical pulse at the sample. Stronger consideration will be given to the pulse shaper that can provide polarization shaping capability, in addition to meeting all other specifications. 5.The pulse shaper must have the capability to both measure and compress pulses from the three sources listed above. The compression algorithm must be automated and the shaper must be able to compensate for all lower order dispersion (first, second third and fourth) accrued by the pulses when traveling through air and upon propagation through optical media such as glass; and provide bandwidth limited pulses with flat spectral phase across the entire bandwidth of the pulses. 6.The input bandwidth supported by the ultrafast pulse shaper when working with both the oscillator and the amplifier pulses must be from 550 nm to 1050 nm. The pulse shaper and all its components (light modulator, antireflection coatings on the optical components, gratings, filters and mirrors) must support operation at this bandwidth. Stronger consideration will be given to the pulse shaper that can support larger bandwidths. This would allow users to operate the hollow core fiber compressor at its limit of generating few cycle optical pulses corresponding to an extremely large bandwidth. 7.The ultrafast pulse shaper must include the necessary spectrometers to cover and support the pulse shaper bandwidth (from 550 nm to 1050 nm). 8.A high level software integration of the pulse shaper is required. The measurement, control, compression and data acquisition software shall be provided to integrate the pulse shaper for the implementation of controlled and automated experiments. The software shall control all aspects of control, compression and data acquisition. The software shall enable the design of automated experiments in which all of the above parameters can be controlled. 9.The vendor must provide qualified personal to perform the initial installation of the Ultrafast Pulse Shaper in the Ultrafast Nano-Optics Lab (Building 216, Room D111 at NIST Campus in Gaithersburg, MD). The installation personnel shall perform all diagnostic tests after installation in the presence of NIST personnel to clearly document that the equipment meets or exceeds all of the Government's required specifications. The diagnostic test must include demonstration of the ability of the pulse shaper to be compatible in power and pulse-length with pulses from the oscillator, amplifier and the hollow-core fiber compressor currently in the lab. Additionally, the following terms shall be met: DELIVERY: The ultrafast pulse shaper must be received and installed on-site within 12 weeks after award of the contract. 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, 333314 as those domestic sources having 500 employees or less. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. Companies that can provide an Ultrafast Pulse Shaper that meets the stated requirements 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 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(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 is 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. Point of Contact: Forest Crumpler, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-6753, Email forest.crumpler@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
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