Welcome to the Ritchie Group website!

 

We apply optical techniques to explore and exploit the way light interacts with matter. Our experiments include spectroscopic analysis of gases, photolysis, and reaction dynamics, as well as manipulation of colloidal systems using optical tweezers.

News

Martin Crow and Lee Moore successfully passed their vivas! Congratulations!

 

Recent Publications

Sub-Doppler spectroscopy with an external cavity quantum cascade laser R.J. Walker, J. Kirkbride, J-P.H. van Helden, D. Weidmann, G.A.D. Ritchie, App. Phys. B DOI 10.1007/s00340-013-5410-9 (April 2013).

Vector correlations in the O₂ (a¹Δ_g, v = 1) fragment formed in the 265 nm photodissociation of ozone G. Hancock, G.A.D Ritchie, T.R. Sharples, Mol. Phys. DOI:10.1080/00268976.2013.780104 (March 2013)

Predissociation dynamics of the C ³P_g Rydberg state of molecular oxygen A. Gilchrist and G.A.D. Ritchie, J. Chem. Phys 138 104320 (March 2013)

New NERC studentship in atmospheric sensing available! Details can be found here. The deadline for applications is

17 May 2013.