SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY SEEKS TO LICENSE THE TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD A CASCADED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIPED PULSE AMPLIFIER
- Notice Date
- 9/19/2005
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 238990
— All Other Specialty Trade Contractors
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (DOE Contractor), Industrial Partnerships & Commercialization, 7000 East Avenue L-795, Livermore, CA, 94550
- ZIP Code
- 94550
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-FBO110-05
- Response Due
- 10/21/2005
- Archive Date
- 10/21/2005
- Description
- LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY SEEKS TO LICENSE THE TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD A CASCADED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIPED PULSE AMPLIFIER Announcement: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), operated by the University of California under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), wants to license the technology to build a Cascaded Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier (COPA). LLNL has developed a novel Cascaded Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier. This COPA uses double-pass optical parametric amplifier design, which uses a single pump pulse and a single periodically poled nonlinear crystal. The design also overcomes many prior energy and contrast limitations due to parametric fluorescence. The COPA provides excellent prepulse suppression. The COPA uses a double pass cascaded design which removes all prepulses occurring earlier than the characteristic pump pulse duration. It is based on the fact that a OPCPA (optical parametric chirped pulse amplification) generates a chirped idler pulse. Since this idler is generated only in the parametric process, it carries no prepulses preceding the main signal pulse if they are not contained within the pump temporal window. This idler pulse central wavelength is different from the signal central wavelength and its spectral phase dispersion is incompatible with recompression using a matched stretcher-compressor pair. However, the cascaded design sends this idler pulse back through the crystal for a second optical parametric amplification stage. The difference-frequency generation process in the second amplification generates the second idler pulse, which has the exact temporal and spectral characteristics of the original signal pulse, except that all the pre- and post-pulses have been removed. The design also uses periodically poled nonlinear materials, which provide significant advantages over bulk nonlinear materials. The design overcomes past limitations of designs using periodically pulled materials to provide high gain (>107), low fluorescence, high beam quality, and high conversion efficiency. The COPA promises to be useful in telecommunications as an amplifier/switch or as a pre-amplifier and prepulse cleaner for a high-power pulsed laser. Please visit the IPAC website at http://www.llnl.gov/IPandC/workwithus/partneringprocess.php for more information on working with LLNL and the industrial partnering and technology transfer process. Note: THIS IS NOT A PROCUREMENT. Companies interested in commercializing LLNL's Cascaded Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier should provide a written statement of interest, which includes the following: 1. Company Name and address. 2. The name, address, and telephone number of a point of contact. 3. A description of corporate expertise and facilities relevant to commercializing this technology. Written responses should be directed to: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Industrial Partnerships and Commercialization P.O. Box 808, L-795 Livermore, CA 94551-0808 Attention: FBO 110-05 Please provide your written statement within thirty (30) days from the date this announcement is published to ensure consideration of your interest in LLNL's Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier.
- Record
- SN00898278-W 20050921/050919211654 (fbodaily.com)
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