Castagna, Natascia Bison, Georg Di Domenico, Gianni Hofer, Adrian Knowles, Paul E. Macchione, Catherine Saudan, Hervé Weis, Antoine 2009-04-03 We have manufactured more than 250 nominally identical paraffin-coated Cs vapor cells (28 mm inner diameter bulbs) for multi-channel atomic magnetometer applications. We describe our dedicated cell characterization apparatus. For each cell we have determined the intrinsic longitudinal, <i>Γ</i> ₀₁, and transverse, <i>Γ</i> ₀₂, relaxation rates. Our best cell shows <i>Γ</i> ₀₁/2<i>π</i>≈0.5 Hz, and <i>Γ</i> ₀₂/2<i>π</i>≈2 Hz. We find a strong correlation of both relaxation rates which we explain in terms of reservoir and spin exchange relaxation. For each cell we have determined the optimal combination of rf and laser powers which yield the highest sensitivity to magnetic field changes. Out of all produced cells, 90% are found to have magnetometric sensitivities in the range of 9 to 30 fT (Hz)½. Noise analysis shows that the magnetometers operated with such cells have a sensitivity close to the fundamental photon shot noise limit. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/301470 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/301470/files/Appl_Phys_B_2009_.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s00340-009-3464-5 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Applied Physics B. - 2009, vol. 96, no. 4, p. 763-772 info:eu-repo/classification/udc/53 A large sample study of spin relaxation and magnetometric sensitivity of paraffin-coated Cs vapor cells http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501