Published date: 13 October 2022

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 31 October 2022, 2pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Machine tools operated by laser and machining centres - 42610000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£50,000 to £100,000

Procurement reference

BIP727824290

Published date

13 October 2022

Closing date

31 October 2022

Closing time

2pm

Contract start date

11 November 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

STFC is seeking to purchase a low noise mode-locked femtosecond fibre laser system to extend the lifetime and upgrade the capability of the CLARA Timing Network. The CLARA Timing Network distributes laser pulses from a fibre laser system to various end stations in the CLARA Accelerator via timing stabilised optical fibres. Fibre-based timing laser system have limited lifetimes, therefore it is prudent to purchase secondary system to minimise downtime and disruption that would be result from a failure of the CLARA Fibre Timing laser. The laser system must be compatible with the CLARA Timing Network, and have similar or higher performance than the existent CLARA Fibre Timing laser.

The laser system main output should be free space coupled. The average output power of the laser system must be at least 100 mW. The pulse repetition rate of the laser system is to be 249.875 MHz and the laser will be required to be synchronised with the CLARA RF master reference at 2.9985 GHz. The CLARA timing network distributes laser pulses throughout the accelerator via optical fibre. As such the laser should have a central wavelength within the 1530-1565 nm communications window.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Elizabeth Gage

Address

https://www.ukri.org/
North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FL
UK

Telephone

+447563420665

Email

Elizabeth.Gage@ukri.org