What this opportunity is
The Department of Commerce is seeking to purchase one ultra high-speed intensified charge-coupled device (ICCD) camera for quantum imaging applications, specifically for low light, fast coincidence photon counting. This opportunity falls under NAICS 334516 and PSC 6640, making it suitable for small businesses specializing in advanced imaging technology. The notice type is a Combined Synopsis/Solicitation, indicating that interested vendors should prepare to submit bids rather than simply track the opportunity.
Analysis by Mindy, grounded in the SAM.gov notice.
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TITLE: Ultra High Speed Intensified Charge-Coupled Device
(ICCD) Camera
Requesting Lab/Division/Group: Physical Measurements Lab/Applied Physics
Division/Molecular and BioPhotonics Group (MBG)
Requisition Number: NB686110-26-01986
General Statement of Need
The proposed acquisition is for the purchase of an ultra high-speed intensified charge-coupled
device (ICCD) camera to perform low light, fast coincidence photon counting for quantum
imaging applications.
The mission of the Molecular and BioPhotonics Group is to provide industry, its suppliers and
customers, with comprehensive and technically advanced measurement capabilities and
standards, as well as traceability to those standards. NIST’s program in quantum imaging has
major measurement challenges to perform entanglement-based indirect imaging. This ultra
high-speed ICCD camera will enable high-throughput, low-jitter coincidence counting needed for
quantum imaging applications.
Items and/or Ancillary Services
Item 1: ICCD Camera
Quantity: One (1)
Specifications:
1. Camera must have single photon detection sensitivity in the range from 400 nm to 900
nm. In particular, the quantum efficiency in near infrared is greater than 10% at 810 nm.
2. The number of pixels must be greater than 1024 x 1024.
3. The pixel sizes in the array are less than 5 microns x 5 microns.
4. The shutter gate times (the full width at the half maximum at 50% transmission) must be
200 ps or shorter with timing jitter of 10 ps or less.
5. The shutter delay time must be adjustable from 0.0 s to at least 10 s with10 ps
resolution.
6. The opening and closing time of the shutter, measured between 1% and 90%
transmission, must be less than 30 ps.
7. The shutter repetition rate must be capable of at least 10 MHz.
8. The camera must cover a digital dynamic range of 32 bit or higher.
9. The camera must be operational in a either burst mode or external trigger mode with a
200 ps or faster shutter time at a repetition rate of 2 MHz or higher for burst mode and 5 MHz or
higher for trigger mode.
10. Software and hardware must support real-time integration of detected signals into high
dynamic memory buffer of 30 bit or higher.
11. The camera shutter can be synchronized by a TTL-level external pulse signal.
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12. The camera serves as a trigger master to synchronize with external devices.
13. The lens to focus the photons from free space to the CCD imaging surface provides >95%
collection efficiency.
14. The interface to a computer is via a high speed USB, working without a separate frame
grabber.
15. Memory transfer from the camera to the computer can be performed via Gigabit
ethernet.
16. Software must provide binning for the full frame as well as for user-defined regions of
interest.
17. This ultra high speed ICCD camera will enable high-throughput, low-jitter coincidence
counting needed for quantum imaging applications. Sub-nanosecond gating is essential to
achieve accurate coincidence detection with single-photon sensitivity while suppressing
background signals outside the entanglement correlation window.
18. In addition, ultrafast dynamic imaging requires a detector capable of high repetition-rate
operation to support rapid data acquisition and time-resolved measurements.
19. To enable broadband quantum imaging experiments, the camera must also be sensitive
across a wide spectral range spanning the visible to near-infrared. This capability is critical for
entangled-photon imaging schemes in which photons are detected in the visible while carrying
information about correlated partners in the near-infrared.
Separately Priced Options and Services:
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Service Requirements / Item Specifications
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Planning
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☐ US citizen required on-site (foreign nationals require preregistration 30 days
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Shipping &
Delivery
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Item to be shipped to Kimberly Briggman, NIST, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305;
phone: 303-497-7287
Shipping criteria:
☐ Partial delivery acceptable
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Building has: ☐ Loading dock
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Other requirements: [List any other requirements here]
Delivery date criteria:
☒ Delivery of goods, installation, and training shall be completed no later than:
26 Weeks
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Note: When installation is required, TPOC or COR shall be the coordination point.
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