The Quper project has rounded off. We’re proud of the collaboration with Leiden Cryogenics and the resulting prototype mini-fridge, running on OrangeQS Juice.
Leiden Cryogenics and OrangeQS team in front of a Quper prototype in Delft.
In 2023 Quantum Delta NL awarded funding to the Quper project. The collaboration between OrangeQS and Leiden Cryogenics would develop a compact, fast turn-around cryostat for quantum applications.
Three years after the conception of the ‘mini-fridge’ for quantum R&D, Leiden Cryogenics (LC) successfully finalized a prototype in the Quper project. They tested a new inverted fridge design, allowing for ergonomic tabletop access for operators. By shrinking all components, a much faster cooldown is possible, without the need for liquid nitrogen.
Sasha Usenko, Leiden Cryogenics CTO: “Fast, compact, simple, but fully functional dilution refrigerators (be it for quantum chip testing and development, optical or beamline experiments, etc…) have been a popular request from our customers for many years and now we are finally ready to fulfill it.”
To remotely monitor, control and automate the Quper fridge, we built a new Leiden Cryogenics back-end for SubZero, the cryogenic control software that runs on OrangeQS Juice. This was a great test of the flexibility and extensibility of Juice.
Koushik Kumaran, product owner at OrangeQS: “The fact that a fridge manufacturer has developed a new system with Juice as the operating system is a huge indicator of reliability.”
Quper project results in the press:
