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Document Type: Sources Sought Notice Notice Number: NIST-MML-23-SS36 Title: 1-GHz SOLID-STATE MODE-LOCKED LASER NAICS Code: 334515-Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring & Testing Electricity and Elec... Document Type: Sources Sought Notice Notice Number: NIST-MML-23-SS36 Title: 1-GHz SOLID-STATE MODE-LOCKED LASER NAICS Code: 334515-Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring & Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals Contracting Office Address National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-1640 Sources Sought Notice NIST-MML-23-SS36 Project Title: 1-GHz SOLID-STATE MODE-LOCKED LASER This is a Sources Sought Notice ONLY. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not receive a response. This Notice is to assist the government in determining if there are any domestic manufactured end product sources for the project title. This is not a Request for Proposal or Request for Quotation or an obligation on the part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for conducting a follow-on acquisition. NIST does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Notice, or otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement or payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by NIST will arise as a result of submission of responses to this Notice and NIST use of such information. Any proprietary, classified or sensitive information should be presented as an addendum to the non-restricted/non-proprietary information. Requirement: NIST is seeking information on contractors that provide a 1-GHz Solid-State Mode-Locked Laser that meets the following minimum requirements: Repetition rate in the range greater than 0.999 GHz and less than 1.001 GHz. Pulse timing jitter less than or equal to 20 fs from 10 kHz to 10 MHz. Optical output centered within the wavelength range greater than 1545 nm and less than 1565 nm, with best effort given to a center wavelength near 1545 nm. Optical bandwidth greater than or equal to 10 nm. Optical output that is fiber coupled to PM fiber with FC/APC connectors. Average output power greater than or equal to 30 mW. Optical monitor port included. Laser residual intensity noise (RIN) less than or equal to 0.01 % from 100 Hz to 10 MHz. Piezoelectric transducer (PZT) actuators included for fast (bandwidth greater than 20 kHz) and slow (bandwidth less than 10 Hz) locking of the repetition rate, respectively. Control electronics for normal operation. Interested parties shall describe the capabilities of their organization as it relates to the item described above. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large and small businesses. The small business size standard associated with the NAICS code for this effort, 334515, is 750 employees. Please include your company’s size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a contract. Companies that can provide such items are requested to email a written response describing their abilities to harry.brubaker@nist.gov no later than the response date for this Sources Sought Notice. The following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this Sources Sought Notice: Name, Address, Unique Entity Identifier number, CAGE code, and point of contact information of your company. Any information on the company’s small business certifications, if applicable. Description of your company’s capabilities as they relate to the item described in this notice. A description of your company’s previous experience providing the item described in this notice. Indication of whether the item described in this notice is currently offered via your company’s GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS contract, Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC), or other existing Governmentwide Contract vehicle; and, if so, the contract number(s) for those vehicles. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in finalizing its market research. Place of Manufacture: Is more than 55% of item manufactured domestically, if not where is it manufactured? Responses are limited to a total of twelve (12) pages. The responses must be in MS Word format. Pages shall be 8½-inch x 11-inch, using Times New Roman 11 Point Font. Each page shall have adequate margins on each side (at least one inch) of the page. Header/footer information (which does not include any information to be analyzed) may be included in the 1" margin space.