Published date: 12 July 2019

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: 25 July 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Laser diodes - 31712348

  • Lasers - 38636100

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£28,000

Procurement reference

tender_212237/783867

Published date

12 July 2019

Closing date

25 July 2019

Contract start date

2 August 2019

Contract end date

10 October 2019

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The National Physical Laboratory [NPL] requirement is for our work on compact microresonator-based soliton frequency combs. The tunable laser will be used as a seed source that pumps whispering gallery microresonators for the frequency comb generation.

Tuning is required to match the laser wavelength with the resonance wavelength of the microresonator mode. In addition, the tunable laser could also be used in experiments related to counterpropagating light as a tunable light source to induce spontaneous symmetry breaking and prove the microresonator state. For these experiments we therefore need a widely tunable light source with narrow linewidth.

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About the buyer

Contact name

James Webb

Address

Hampton Road
Teddington
TW11 0LW
England

Email

james.webb@npl.co.uk