High Power Programmable Beam Shaping Laser I Procurement Services I SOLE SOURCE |

Oregon State University intends to contract for the provision of a high power programmable beam-shaping laser from Civan Advanced Technologies Ltd. as a sole source because of the contractor being the only provider able to meet critical parameters or timeframes to support the research and/or business needs of the university. OSU is in need for the laser at its Pacific Northwest Institute for Advanced Manufacturing (PACNW-IAM). PACNW-IAM delivers technical assistance and hands-on training in advanced manufacturing to small manufacturers in the Pacific Northwest, many of which supply the regional aerospace, defense, semiconductor, and energy-storage sectors. The institute's role is to give those firms access to a capability they cannot individually justify, together with the training and process guidance needed to apply it. Minimum technical specifications required by the business need are below: 1. Continuous-wave near-infrared output of at least 16 kW from a single laser source. 2. Dynamic beam shaping produced by coherent beam combining of a phased fiber-amplifier array, with electro-optic (non-mechanical) phase control. 3. Beam pattern reconfiguration at MHz rates (sub-microsecond switching), with no moving optical elements and no scanner inertia. 4. Arbitrary, user-programmable intensity distributions - including ring, split-spot, and multi-spot patterns - with independent, asymmetric power allocation among the constituent sub-beams. 5. Deterministic, repeatable pattern generation under program control, with an open command interface permitting synchronization of beam-shape changes with robot motion and external process monitoring. 6. Suitability for integration onto a six-axis robotic manipulator and for both directed energy deposition heads and keyhole welding optics. 7. Compatibility with existing OSU equipment: the work cell must co-locate and interoperate with a Proto Manufacturing roboXRD six-axis robotic X-ray diffractometer (OSU-owned), including shared safety interlocking, fixturing, and specimen registration, so that processed coupons transfer to diffraction measurement without loss of positional reference. 8. An open, user-accessible pattern library rather than a fixed, factory-locked profile set, so that institute staff and client personnel can define and save process recipes during training and technical assistance engagements. 9. Vendor applications-engineering and operator training support suitable for a facility whose purpose is instructing external personnel. Required supplier expertise: demonstrated production deployment of coherently combined high-power fiber laser architectures, and an applications record in beam-shaping process development for additive manufacturing and dissimilar-metal joining. Civan Advanced Technologies Ltd. is the only supplier known to OSU that manufactures a commercially available laser meeting the minim specifications. An entity may challenge this determination no later than the closing date indicated on the website. Challenges must be submitted to Cassandra Hurd by email at cassandra.hurd@oregonstate.edu.