UKRI-5208 UPLiFT Pulsed Laser Diode System
Details
- Supplier(s)
- Amphos GmbH
- Value
- £304,300
- Duration
- 4 years
- Topic
- Laser diodes
- Published
- 3 December 2025
- Source
- uk:find_a_tender
Tender description
STFC are looking to purchase a Pulsed Laser Diode Systems which will be used to pump a ytterbium:YAG laser amplifier generating pulses at a repetition rate of 10 Hz. The Yb:YAG laser is being developed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) as a prototype demonstrator for a new diode pumped solid state laser (DPSSL) concept with the potential of providing a low-cost, efficient laser-driver for an inertial fusion energy (IFE) power plant. It will be installed and operated at the Central Laser Facility (CLF) in a laser laboratory at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. ## Contract award Title: UKRI-5208 UPLiFT Pulsed Laser Diode System
Timeline
- Completed: Award date2 December 2025
- Completed: Award published3 December 2025Current notice
- Next: Contract expiry date1 January 2030in 3 years
About the buyer
UK Research & Innovation is the non-departmental public body that brings together the seven research councils, Research England and Innovate UK, and runs its own supplier portal. Suppliers register and respond to e-tenders on that portal, an Atamis system. Opportunities are also advertised on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. Framework agreements let by the body, including one for office furniture, are published on Find a Tender. Tenders from the national laboratories run by the Science and Technology Facilities Council appear on the same portal. The UK Industrial Liaison Office gives UK companies advance notice of tenders from international facilities such as CERN and ESO.
Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.
Over the past 5 years, most of UK Research & Innovation's contract awards have been in business services, laboratory and precision equipment and repair and maintenance.
Relevant CPV codes
- 31712348 · Laser diodes
Decision makers
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