Comment on "Laser cooling of $^{173}$Yb for isotope separation and precision hyperfine spectroscopy"
Atomic Physics
2018-01-17 v1
Abstract
We present measurements of the hyperfine splitting in the Yb-173 states that disagree significantly with those measured previously by Das and Natarajan [Phys. Rev. A 76, 062505 (2007)]. We point out inconsistencies in their measurements and suggest that their error is due to optical pumping and improper determination of the atomic line center. Our measurements are made using an optical frequency comb. We use an optical pumping scheme to improve the signal-to-background ratio for the component.
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@article{arxiv.1712.09635,
title = {Comment on "Laser cooling of $^{173}$Yb for isotope separation and precision hyperfine spectroscopy"},
author = {Quinton McKnight and Adam Dodson and Tucker Sprenkle and Tyler Bennett and Scott Bergeson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.09635},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A