Awarded Contractocds-h6vhtk-03c52a

Procurement of the Femtosecond Spitfire ACE laser system

Professor Vas Stavros and his group recently (January 2023) relocated from the University of Warwick to the University of Birmingham. The femtosecond laser system that is sought (as part of Vas Stavros's start-up package) is from a single supplier: MKS Newport Spectra-Physics. The Femtosecond Spitfire ACE laser system (termed henceforth Spitfire ACE) will replace a now obsolete MKS Newport Spectra-Physics Spitfire Pro XP, currently housed in the Stavros Lab at the University of Warwick. This is a like-for-like repl...

Buyer

THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

Value

Not provided

Published

28 Apr 2023

Closes

28 Apr 2023

Procurement details

Source

Find a Tender

Region

Birmingham

Procurement method

Limited

Category

Goods

Contract starts

Not provided

Contract ends

Not provided

CPV classifications

38636100

Lasers

38636000

Specialist optical instruments

Lots

Lot 1 Procurement of the Femtosecond Spitfire ACE laser system

Value not provided

The Spitfire ACE will dovetail three existing optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs, essentially smaller lasers with unrivalled wavelength tunability) that will be transferred from the University of Warwick to the University of Birmingham. These OPAs are MKS Newport Spectra-Physics supplied OPAs and thus are set up to only be compatible with the Spitfire ACE....

Delivery: West Midlands (England)

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