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Supporting the quantum industry from technology development to QPU scale-up
France has made high performance cryogenics a strategic enabling technology within its National Quantum Strategy
Through CRYONEXT, research organisations, cryogenic specialists and quantum technology companies are developing the technologies required by future quantum systems.
Absolut System contributes to this effort by transforming cryogenic R&D into technological building blocks and, ultimately, integrated industrial solutions.
Cryogenic technologies for photonics and quantum sensing
One cold-generation infrastructure, multiple QPU platforms! Whatever the future architecture, cooling must ultimately be generated, transferred and distributed to the QPU platforms.
This creates a new engineering challenge. Instead of considering the cryostat as an isolated piece of equipment, future large-scale quantum infrastructures may combine: Centralised cold generation + Cryogenic distribution network + Multiple QPU Integration Platforms + Dedicated control & readout electronics for each QPU.
The primary cold-generation infrastructure can progressively become a shared utility, while each QPU Integration Platform retains the thermal, electrical, RF, magnetic and mechanical environment required by its processor.
This transition introduces major engineering challenges: Cryogenic distribution • Thermal losses • Flow management • Hydraulic balancing • Thermal interfaces • Isolation • Redundancy • Availability • Maintainability • Control & automation.
This is where cryogenic system engineering becomes critical. The ability to generate cooling power is only one part of the challenge.
The ability to transport and distribute that cooling power efficiently, reliably and at the required temperature to multiple QPU platforms will become a key enabling technology for future large quantum infrastructures.
This is an area where Absolut System’s expertise in cryogenic engineering, thermal management, fluid distribution and complete system architecture can play a major role.
CRYONEXT gives France a framework for developing the cryogenic technologies required by future quantum systems.
Absolut System’s role is to help transform these technologies into industrial cryogenic solutions engineered around real quantum-system roadmaps.
This end-to-end capability allows us to combine individual technological building blocks into complete cryogenic systems adapted to each application.
We don’t just design cryostats, we engineer the cryogenic infrastructure around your quantum technology roadmap.
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In order to recreate the life and performance of the engines studied by ONERA as closely as possible to actual operating conditions, Absolut System has recreated the environment of the satellite in orbit, using the cryogenic pump in the vacuum chamber.
Absolut System has been working on the development of a cryogenic propellant depot, as part of the CNES R&D Challenge for upper stage reuse. The use of depots and on-orbit refueling are essential for long-term lunar and Mars missions, as they enable multiple launch missions and reusable tugs in space.
As a partner in the MEESST project, Absolut System manufactures and supplies the cooling system, based on a cryogenic circulation loop. This system is used to cool the superconducting magnet, which is maintained at 40K to generate a magnetic field capable of repelling the plasma.
The result of a Franco-Indian partnership, the TRISHNA project collects thermal infrared images of the Earth's surface with unrivalled resolution and revisit frequency. Absolut System supplied the thermal links and cryogenic cooling for the instruments on the International Space Operations mission to study the Earth's temperatures.
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Absolut System is taking part in the European SCARLET project ("Superconducting cables for sustainable energy transition") with 14 partners in 7 countries. The aim is to design and industrially manufacture superconducting cables to enable more efficient and less costly energy transmission from renewable electricity production sites.
Absolut System is developing a long-life cooled optronic system, in partnership with French manufacturers Lynred and HGH. Our R&D teams have developed a new generation of high-frequency, high-reliability Pulse-Tubes.