Senseurs Inertiels Miniatures à Source Atomique Cohérente – MINIATOM

The MINIATOM project goals is to implement a collaboration between the basic research laboratories leaders in this field (SYRTE, IOGS), and industries specialized in the integration of optical sensors (essentially gyros) (THALES, IXSEA) and integrated optics (KLOE). This collaboration will develop synergies within the poles Ile-de-France and PopSud in order to complete in a few years the early development of compact atomic inertial sensors representing the future generation of inertial sensor for navigation, surveillance, exploration of the earth and fundamental physics. Through the study and development of miniature atom sensors, MINIATOM answers to this problem by developing the basic concepts and key technologies to achieve a level of simplification making these devices competitive and to then consider a rapid transfer to the industrial world.