Description
The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) is seeking information from qualified sources for a quantum demonstration/experiment system. The system should provide a flexible, high-precision experimental platform capable of supporting foundational and advanced experiments in quantum optics, quantum sensing, and quantum information science. The required system shall include single photon detectors, high-resolution time tagging and time correlated data acquisition electronics, and integrated digital interfaces to enable precise experimental control, synchronization, and analysis.
• The system shall be modular, scalable, and reconfigurable, enabling multiple experiment configurations without permanent modification.
• All components shall be commercially supported, laboratory-grade instrumentation suitable for sustained academic and research use.
• The system shall include multiple single photon detectors with high quantum efficiency in the visible and near infrared spectral range, low dark count rates suitable for coincidence measurements, and sub-nanosecond timing resolution.
• The components shall support the characterization of polarization-entangled photon pairs via spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), enabling coincidence counting, entanglement correlation measurements, and entanglement swapping experiments.
Attached files
The solicitation documents live at the source — open the bid source above to download them.
Contact
Dawson Hopkinson and Ken Helgeson(Contract Specialist and Contracting Officer)