Sub-Doppler cooling of ytterbium with the ${}^1{S}_0$-${}^1{P}_1$ transition including ${}^{171}$Yb (I=1/2)

Nikita Kostylev, Eugene Ivanov, Michael E. Tobar +1

We report on the sub-Doppler laser cooling of neutral ${}^{171}$Yb and ${}^{173}$Yb in a magneto-optical trap using the ${}^1{S}_0$-${}^1{P}_1$ transition at 398.9nm. We use two indepe…