Comment on "Laser cooling of ${}^{173}$Yb for isotope separation and precision hyperfine spectroscopy"

Quinton McKnight, Adam Dodson, Tucker Sprenkle +2

We present measurements of the hyperfine splitting in the Yb-173 $6s6p{}^1{P}_1^{\mathrm{o}}(F^{\prime }=3/2,7/2)$ states that disagree significantly with those measured previously by Das…