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In TDTR, a modulated ultrafast laser “pump” pulse heats the sample and a delayed pulsed “probe” beam interrogates the thermal properties of thin film or multilayered materials as a function of the probe delay time. Lock-in amplifiers are used to detect the thermal response signal of the probe beam, which acquires the same modulation frequency of the modulated pump beam. Lock-in amplifiers can extract very small signals buried in noise. The working principle of a lock-in amplifier, called demodulation or phase-sensitive detection, rests on mixing the measured signal with a reference frequency followed by low-pass filtering. Boxcar Averager units integrated within one of the lock-ins will increase the measurement speed and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The lock-in amplifiers shall be fully compatible with Zurich Instruments software development kit LabOne® and LabOne® Application Programming Interface (APIs) due to pre-existing proprietary custom software. Furthermore, all three lock-in amplifiers in this requirement shall be fully compatible with Zurich Instruments ZSync proprietary bus to locally interconnect all three lock-ins for multi-device synchronization (MDS) and for compatibility with pre-existing Zurich Instruments HF2LI lock-ins in our lab. Zurich Instruments hardware and the LabOne® software enable multi-device synchronization (MDS) for up to 8 instruments and allows users to access them through a single graphical user interface and LabOne® API session. The TDTR instrument will enable NIST to uniquely measure the in situ thermal properties of thin film and multilayer materials in wide bandgap power electronics materials, packaging materials, and integrated chip components, directly supporting our CHIPS Project: Thermoreflectance Thermal Property Measurements. This CHIPS project supports Grand Challenge 4: Modeling and Simulating Semiconductor Materials, Designs, and Components. HOW TO RESPOND TO THIS NOTICE In responding to this notice, please DO NOT PROVIDE PROPRIETARY INFORMATION. Please include only the following information, readable in either Microsoft Word 365, Microsoft Excel 365, or .pdf format, in the response. Submit the response by email to the Primary Point of Contact and, if specified, to the Secondary Point of Contact listed at the bottom of this notice as soon as possible, and preferably before the closing date and time of this notice. Provide the complete name of your company, address, name of contact for follow-up questions, their email, their phone number and, if your company has an active registration in https://sam.gov, your company’s Unique Entity ID (UEI). Details about what your company is capable of providing that meets or exceeds NIST’s minimum requirements. Whether your company is an authorized reseller of the product or service being cited and evidence of such authorization. Identify any aspects of the description of the requirements in the BACKGROUND section above that could be viewed as unduly restrictive or create unnecessary barriers that adversely affect your firm’s ability to fully participate in a procurement for such services and explain why. Please offer suggestions for how the requirements could be organized or structured to encourage the participation of small businesses. For the NAICS code Indicate whether your company is (a) a small business or (b) other than small business. See the Table of Small Business Size Standards and the associated .pdf download file for small business size standards and additional information. If you believe the NAICS code listed in this notice is not the best NAICS code for the type of product addressed in this notice, identify an alternative NAICS code that you believe would be more appropriate for the planned procurement. If your firm has existing Federal Supply Schedule contract(s) or other contracts for products or services against which the Department may be able to place orders, identify the contract number(s) and other relevant information. Describe your firm’s experience (as a prime, subcontractor, or consultant) providing the products or services described in Background section. Provide any other information that you believe would be valuable for the Government to know as part of its market research for this requirement. Please let us know if you would like to engage to get a better understanding of the requirement or need additional information about the Government’s requirement for the products or services described in the Background section. QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS NOTICE Questions regarding this notice may be submitted via email to the Primary Point of Contact and the Secondary Point of Contact listed in this notice. Questions should be submitted so that they are received by 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on June 12, 2024. Questions will be anonymized and answered via sources sought notice amendment following the question submission deadline. IMPORTANT NOTES The information received in response to this notice will be reviewed and considered so that the NIST may appropriately solicit for its requirements in the near future. This notice should not be construed as a commitment by the NIST to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract. This notice is not a request for a quotation. Responses will not be considered as proposals or quotations. No awards will be made as a result of this notice. NIST is not responsible for any costs incurred by the respondents to this notice. NIST reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and appropriate. 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The new device would fill the needs of the air force for air data pressure calibrations. The sensitivity by laser noise and linewidth, by selecting this ultra-narow low noise laser our requirements will be met and is critical to the success of the project. In order to meet the project requirement of ultra low vacuum level pressure sensing a laser with a linewidth of 20 Hz is required. Without this feature the laser frequency noise will be too high and low pressure measurement part of the project will not be possible. The ultimate level of measurement pressure is limited by the freqeuncy noise of the system. In addition to the linewidth, the laser is also required to have a modulation speed of 1 MHz to allow for tight laser locking. The tight laser locking is critical for this project for active high speed laser stabilization. Background CLIN 0003: Within the Photonics and Optomechanics Group in the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division, we do research involving photonic crystals for optomechanics. These optomechanical photonic crystals have applications including small force sensing, accelerometry, vacuum measurement, and quantum technologies, all of which are pursued at NIST. As we have made progress in this work, the requirements on the lasers used to probe and control our devices have become progressively more stringent. We are now optically cooling the photonic crystals, with the goal of reaching the quantum ground state from room temperature. This is a very ambitious undertaking, and among other things requires lasers with extremely narrow linewidth. We recently bought a laser with an extremely narrow (< 7 Hz) linewidth to probe a cavity made with our optomechanical crystals, and we now need an identical laser to pump the cavity on a nearby mode. This work is part of the “Hybrid phononic/photonic crystal membrane for cavity quantum optomechanics” research project within the Photonics and Optomechanics Group in the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division. This notice is not a request for a quotation. A solicitation document will not be issued and quotations will not be requested. This acquisition is being conducted under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) via FAR 13.501. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 334516 Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing. CLIN 0001- 0002: In order to meet the project requirement of ultra low vacuum level pressure sensing a laser with a extremely low noise and narrow linewidth is required. These specifications set the lower pressure limit on our vacuum level sensor. The goal to to probe to the deepest vacuum level possible and so absolutely lowest laser linewidth is required. From our research we know that <100 Hz laser is required to meet moderate vacuum pressure measurements and to go lower pressure an even better laser is needed. Without this specification the laser frequency noise will be too high unable to operate at low pressure and the project will fail. The ultimate level of measurement pressure is limited by the frequency noise of the system. Only the OE waves laser can meet all these requirements. CLIN 0003: As part of the \"Hybrid phononic/photonic crystal membrane for cavity quantum optomechanics\" research project within the Photonics and Optomechanics Group in the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division, we do research involving photonic crystals for optomechanics. These optomechanical photonic crystals have applications including small force sensing, accelerometry, vacuum measurement, and quantum technologies, all of which are pursued at NIST. The photonic crystals are designed to work at telecom wavelengths, in the vicinity of 1500 nm – 1600 nm. We build them into optical cavities and exploit the interaction between the stored optical power and the mechanical behavior of the photonic crystals. We are now optically cooling the photonic crystals, with the goal of reaching the quantum ground state from room temperature. This is a very ambitious undertaking, and among other things requires lasers with extremely narrow linewidth. We recently bought a laser with an extremely narrow (< 7 Hz) linewidth to probe a cavity made with one of our optomechanical crystals, and we now need an identical laser to pump the cavity on a nearby mode. NIST conducted market research from November 2023 to May 2024 by internet searches, GSA Advantage searches, company website searches, discussions with sources, and sources sought posting. The results of that market research revealed that only OE Waves; 465 N Halstead ST, STE 140, Pasadena, CA 91107 USA; UEI: L6MEAK541NH5 appears to be capable of meeting NIST’s requirements. However, any sources that believe they are capable of meeting NIST’s minimum requirements are encouraged to respond to this notice by the response date to provide the following information at a minimum: Company Unique Entity Identifier number in https://sam.gov; details about what your company is capable of providing that meets or exceeds NIST’s minimum requirements; whether your company is an authorized reseller of the product or service being cited and evidence of such authorization; and any other information that can help NIST determine whether this requirement may be competitively satisfied.","origin":"extract"},"notice_type":{"code":"s","label":"Special Notice"},"schema_version":1,"solicitation_number":"NB305000-24-02241","place_of_performance":{"zip":"20899","city":{"name":"Gaithersburg"},"state":{"code":"MD"},"country":{"code":"USA"}},"product_service_code":"6640"},{"dates":{"posted":"2024-08-20","response_deadline":{"raw":"2024-07-05T11:00:00-04:00","utc":"2024-07-05T15:00:00Z","date":"2024-07-05","time":"11:00:00","utc_offset_seconds":-14400}},"links":{"sam":"https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/1a266cfa5f294b39bae64f23e70fd2a3/view"},"naics":{"codes":["334516"],"primary":"334516"},"title":"Notice of Intent to Noncompetitively Lock-In Amplifier","agency":{"office":{"code":"1333ND","name":"DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST"},"subtier":{"code":"1341","name":"NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY"},"department":{"code":"013","name":"COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF"},"office_address":{"zip":"20899","city":"GAITHERSBURG","state":"MD","country":"USA"},"organization_type":"OFFICE"},"status":{"active":false,"archive_date":"2024-07-20","archive_type":"auto15"},"contacts":[{"name":"Tracy Retterer","role":"primary","email":"Tracy.retterer@nist.gov"},{"name":"Joni L. 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The new device would fill the needs of the air force for air data pressure calibrations. The sensitivity by laser noise and linewidth, by selecting this ultra-narow low noise laser our requirements will be met and is critical to the success of the project. In order to meet the project requirement of ultra low vacuum level pressure sensing a laser with a linewidth of 20 Hz is required. Without this feature the laser frequency noise will be too high and low pressure measurement part of the project will not be possible. The ultimate level of measurement pressure is limited by the freqeuncy noise of the system. In addition to the linewidth, the laser is also required to have a modulation speed of 1 MHz to allow for tight laser locking. The tight laser locking is critical for this project for active high speed laser stabilization. Background CLIN 0003: Within the Photonics and Optomechanics Group in the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division, we do research involving photonic crystals for optomechanics. These optomechanical photonic crystals have applications including small force sensing, accelerometry, vacuum measurement, and quantum technologies, all of which are pursued at NIST. As we have made progress in this work, the requirements on the lasers used to probe and control our devices have become progressively more stringent. We are now optically cooling the photonic crystals, with the goal of reaching the quantum ground state from room temperature. This is a very ambitious undertaking, and among other things requires lasers with extremely narrow linewidth. We recently bought a laser with an extremely narrow (< 7 Hz) linewidth to probe a cavity made with our optomechanical crystals, and we now need an identical laser to pump the cavity on a nearby mode. This work is part of the “Hybrid phononic/photonic crystal membrane for cavity quantum optomechanics” research project within the Photonics and Optomechanics Group in the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division. This notice is not a request for a quotation. A solicitation document will not be issued and quotations will not be requested. This acquisition is being conducted under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) via FAR 13.501. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 334516 Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing. CLIN 0001- 0002: In order to meet the project requirement of ultra low vacuum level pressure sensing a laser with a extremely low noise and narrow linewidth is required. These specifications set the lower pressure limit on our vacuum level sensor. The goal to to probe to the deepest vacuum level possible and so absolutely lowest laser linewidth is required. From our research we know that <100 Hz laser is required to meet moderate vacuum pressure measurements and to go lower pressure an even better laser is needed. Without this specification the laser frequency noise will be too high unable to operate at low pressure and the project will fail. The ultimate level of measurement pressure is limited by the frequency noise of the system. Only the OE waves laser can meet all these requirements. CLIN 0003: As part of the \"Hybrid phononic/photonic crystal membrane for cavity quantum optomechanics\" research project within the Photonics and Optomechanics Group in the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division, we do research involving photonic crystals for optomechanics. These optomechanical photonic crystals have applications including small force sensing, accelerometry, vacuum measurement, and quantum technologies, all of which are pursued at NIST. The photonic crystals are designed to work at telecom wavelengths, in the vicinity of 1500 nm – 1600 nm. We build them into optical cavities and exploit the interaction between the stored optical power and the mechanical behavior of the photonic crystals. We are now optically cooling the photonic crystals, with the goal of reaching the quantum ground state from room temperature. This is a very ambitious undertaking, and among other things requires lasers with extremely narrow linewidth. We recently bought a laser with an extremely narrow (< 7 Hz) linewidth to probe a cavity made with one of our optomechanical crystals, and we now need an identical laser to pump the cavity on a nearby mode. NIST conducted market research from November 2023 to May 2024 by internet searches, GSA Advantage searches, company website searches, discussions with sources, and sources sought posting. The results of that market research revealed that only OE Waves; 465 N Halstead ST, STE 140, Pasadena, CA 91107 USA; UEI: L6MEAK541NH5 appears to be capable of meeting NIST’s requirements. However, any sources that believe they are capable of meeting NIST’s minimum requirements are encouraged to respond to this notice by the response date to provide the following information at a minimum: Company Unique Entity Identifier number in https://sam.gov; details about what your company is capable of providing that meets or exceeds NIST’s minimum requirements; whether your company is an authorized reseller of the product or service being cited and evidence of such authorization; and any other information that can help NIST determine whether this requirement may be competitively satisfied.","origin":"extract"},"notice_type":{"code":"s","label":"Special Notice"},"schema_version":1,"solicitation_number":"NB305000-24-02241","place_of_performance":{"zip":"20899","city":{"name":"Gaithersburg"},"state":{"code":"MD"},"country":{"code":"USA"}},"product_service_code":"6640"},{"dates":{"posted":"2024-08-20","response_deadline":{"raw":"2024-08-20T11:00:00-04:00","utc":"2024-08-20T15:00:00Z","date":"2024-08-20","time":"11:00:00","utc_offset_seconds":-14400}},"links":{"sam":"https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/fc65a57f660d4ee0acbf166c653be758/view"},"naics":{"codes":["334516"],"primary":"334516"},"title":"Notice of Intent to Noncompetitively Lock-In Amplifier","agency":{"office":{"code":"1333ND","name":"DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST"},"subtier":{"code":"1341","name":"NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY"},"department":{"code":"013","name":"COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF"},"office_address":{"zip":"20899","city":"GAITHERSBURG","state":"MD","country":"USA"},"organization_type":"OFFICE"},"status":{"active":false,"archive_date":"2024-08-21","archive_type":"auto_custom"},"contacts":[{"name":"Tracy Retterer","role":"primary","email":"Tracy.retterer@nist.gov"},{"name":"Joni L. 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In TDTR, a modulated ultrafast laser “pump” pulse heats the sample and a delayed pulsed “probe” beam interrogates the thermal properties of thin film or multilayered materials as a function of the probe delay time. Lock-in amplifiers are used to detect the thermal response signal of the probe beam, which acquires the same modulation frequency of the modulated pump beam. Lock-in amplifiers can extract very small signals buried in noise. The working principle of a lock-in amplifier, called demodulation or phase-sensitive detection, rests on mixing the measured signal with a reference frequency followed by low-pass filtering. Boxcar Averager units integrated within one of the lock-ins will increase the measurement speed and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The lock-in amplifiers shall be fully compatible with Zurich Instruments software development kit LabOne® and LabOne® Application Programming Interface (APIs) due to pre-existing proprietary custom software. Furthermore, all three lock-in amplifiers in this requirement shall be fully compatible with Zurich Instruments ZSync proprietary bus to locally interconnect all three lock-ins for multi-device synchronization (MDS) and for compatibility with pre-existing Zurich Instruments HF2LI lock-ins in our lab. Zurich Instruments hardware and the LabOne® software enable multi-device synchronization (MDS) for up to 8 instruments and allows users to access them through a single graphical user interface and LabOne® API session. The TDTR instrument will enable NIST to uniquely measure the in situ thermal properties of thin film and multilayer materials in wide bandgap power electronics materials, packaging materials, and integrated chip components, directly supporting our CHIPS Project: Thermoreflectance Thermal Property Measurements. This CHIPS project supports Grand Challenge 4: Modeling and Simulating Semiconductor Materials, Designs, and Components. This notice is not a request for a quotation. A solicitation document will not be issued and quotations will not be requested. This acquisition is being conducted under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) via FAR 13.501. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 334516 Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing. In order to meet the project requirement NIST requires three (3) lock-in amplifiers that are fully compatible with Zurich Instruments software development kit LabOne® and LabOne® Application Programming Interface (APIs) due to pre-existing proprietary custom software. Furthermore, all three lock-in amplifiers in this requirement shall be fully compatible with Zurich Instruments ZSync proprietary bus to locally interconnect all three lock-ins for multi-device synchronization (MDS) and for compatibility with pre-existing Zurich Instruments HF2LI lock-ins in our lab. NIST conducted market research by internet searches, GSA Advantage searches, company website searches, discussions with sources, and sources sought posting. The results of that market research revealed that only Zurich Instruments; UEI: WXNAU91NVWB6 appears to be capable of meeting NIST’s requirements. However, any sources that believe they are capable of meeting NIST’s minimum requirements are encouraged to respond to this notice by the response date to provide the following information at a minimum: Company Unique Entity Identifier number in https://sam.gov; details about what your company is capable of providing that meets or exceeds NIST’s minimum requirements; whether your company is an authorized reseller of the product or service being cited and evidence of such authorization; and any other information that can help NIST determine whether this requirement may be competitively satisfied.","origin":"extract"},"notice_type":{"code":"s","label":"Special Notice"},"schema_version":1,"solicitation_number":"NB305000-24-02241","place_of_performance":{"zip":"20899","city":{"name":"Gaithersburg"},"state":{"code":"MD"},"country":{"code":"USA"}},"product_service_code":"6640"}],"due_at":"2024-06-14T15:00:00Z","due_date":"2024-06-14","closes_at":"2024-06-14T15:00:00Z","awardable":false,"dept_key":"d-013","dept_name":"COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF","sub_key":"s-1341","sub_name":"NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY","office_key":"o-1333ND","office_name":"DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST","state":"MD","county":"24031","county_name":"Montgomery County","city":"2431175","city_name":"Gaithersburg","country":"USA","winner_key":null,"amount":null,"linked_awards":0,"cancelled":false,"archived":false,"updated_at":"2026-09-16T21:18:12.857524Z","principal_notice_id":"fc65a57f660d4ee0acbf166c653be758","description":{"text":"The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking information from sources that may be capable of providing a lock-in amplifier. NIST is constructing a custom Time Domain Thermoreflectance (TDTR) instrument. In TDTR, a modulated ultrafast laser “pump” pulse heats the sample and a delayed pulsed “probe” beam interrogates the thermal properties of thin film or multilayered materials as a function of the probe delay time. Lock-in amplifiers are used to detect the thermal response signal of the probe beam, which acquires the same modulation frequency of the modulated pump beam. Lock-in amplifiers can extract very small signals buried in noise. The working principle of a lock-in amplifier, called demodulation or phase-sensitive detection, rests on mixing the measured signal with a reference frequency followed by low-pass filtering. Boxcar Averager units integrated within one of the lock-ins will increase the measurement speed and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The lock-in amplifiers shall be fully compatible with Zurich Instruments software development kit LabOne® and LabOne® Application Programming Interface (APIs) due to pre-existing proprietary custom software. Furthermore, all three lock-in amplifiers in this requirement shall be fully compatible with Zurich Instruments ZSync proprietary bus to locally interconnect all three lock-ins for multi-device synchronization (MDS) and for compatibility with pre-existing Zurich Instruments HF2LI lock-ins in our lab. Zurich Instruments hardware and the LabOne® software enable multi-device synchronization (MDS) for up to 8 instruments and allows users to access them through a single graphical user interface and LabOne® API session. The TDTR instrument will enable NIST to uniquely measure the in situ thermal properties of thin film and multilayer materials in wide bandgap power electronics materials, packaging materials, and integrated chip components, directly supporting our CHIPS Project: Thermoreflectance Thermal Property Measurements. This CHIPS project supports Grand Challenge 4: Modeling and Simulating Semiconductor Materials, Designs, and Components. This notice is not a request for a quotation. A solicitation document will not be issued and quotations will not be requested. This acquisition is being conducted under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) via FAR 13.501. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 334516 Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing. In order to meet the project requirement NIST requires three (3) lock-in amplifiers that are fully compatible with Zurich Instruments software development kit LabOne® and LabOne® Application Programming Interface (APIs) due to pre-existing proprietary custom software. Furthermore, all three lock-in amplifiers in this requirement shall be fully compatible with Zurich Instruments ZSync proprietary bus to locally interconnect all three lock-ins for multi-device synchronization (MDS) and for compatibility with pre-existing Zurich Instruments HF2LI lock-ins in our lab. NIST conducted market research by internet searches, GSA Advantage searches, company website searches, discussions with sources, and sources sought posting. The results of that market research revealed that only Zurich Instruments; UEI: WXNAU91NVWB6 appears to be capable of meeting NIST’s requirements. However, any sources that believe they are capable of meeting NIST’s minimum requirements are encouraged to respond to this notice by the response date to provide the following information at a minimum: Company Unique Entity Identifier number in https://sam.gov; details about what your company is capable of providing that meets or exceeds NIST’s minimum requirements; whether your company is an authorized reseller of the product or service being cited and evidence of such authorization; and any other information that can help NIST determine whether this requirement may be competitively satisfied.","html":null,"origin":"extract"},"contacts":[{"name":"Tracy Retterer","role":"primary","email":"Tracy.retterer@nist.gov"},{"name":"Joni L. 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