Technology/Business Opportunity Holographic Plasma Lenses Tender, USA - 101715155

Procurement Summary

Country : USA

Summary : Technology/Business Opportunity Holographic Plasma Lenses

Deadline : 24 Jun 2024

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 101715155

Document Ref. No. : IL-13624

Competition : ICB

Financier : Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership : Public

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Description

Opportunity:

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), operated by the Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), LLC under contract no. DE-AC52-07NA27344 (Contract 44) with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is offering the opportunity to enter into a collaboration to further develop and commercialize its Holographic Plasma Lenses technology.



Background:

High power laser beams are difficult to manipulate because high light intensities damage solid materials like glass. The current method for reaching higher power levels is to use very large glass optics (e.g. NIF), spreading the power over a larger area to avoid damage. This is prohibitively costly for very high powers. To avoid impractical cost, a better solution would be to use a material that is not so easily damaged by light (e.g. plasma). Prior to this invention there were no viable methods for using plasma as a lens to focus or collimate light.



Description:

Holography fully encodes a 3D light field by imprinting its interference pattern with a reference laser beam in a nonlinear medium. By crossing two pump laser pulses in a gas jet, a hologram can be recorded as a distribution of plasma, allowing manipulation of a subsequent high-intensity probe beam. The interference between two collinear beams with distinct foci produces a plasma zone plate, a diffractive plasma lens capable of focusing or collimating light.



Advantages/Benefits:

Enables focusing and collimation of high power or high energy laser beams which would otherwise damage glass optics. Enables scaling of laser power densities to PW/cm2 levels and beyond, a million times the current GW/cm2 typical fused silica optical component damage limits. Holographic plasma optics can impart almost arbitrary spatial operations, and the mechanism is not limited to the creation of simple lenses.

Potential Applications:

High Energy Density Science research facilities. Laser Inertial Conf...
Active Contract Opportunity Notice ID IL-13624 Related Notice Department/Ind. Agency ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF Sub-tier ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF Office LLNS – DOE CONTRACTOR
General Information
Contract Opportunity Type: Special Notice (Updated)
All Dates/Times are: (UTC-07:00) PACIFIC STANDARD TIME, LOS ANGELES, USA
Updated Published Date: May 24, 2024 10:27 am PDT
Original Published Date: May 24, 2024 10:19 am PDT
Updated Response Date: Jun 24, 2024 11:00 am PDT
Original Response Date: Jun 24, 2024 11:00 am PDT
Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
Updated Inactive Date: Jul 09, 2024
Original Inactive Date: Jul 09, 2024
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NAICS Code: 333248 - All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

Place of Performance: Livermore, CA USA

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