Website: http://www.iesl.forth.gr/research/newactivity.aspx?id=12
Contact Person: PROF. T. PETER RAKITZIS
Telephone: 2810 391125
email: ptr@iesl.forth.gr
Description
RESEARCH DIRECTIONS / OBJECTIVES
- A) Development of cavity-enhanced polarimetry (for improvement of sensitivity and time resolution).
- B) Development of cavity-enhanced ellipsometry (for improvement of sensitivity and time resolution).
- C) Measurement of atomic parity-nonconservation in Iodine, Xenon, and Mercury.
- D) Production of spin-polarized atoms and molecules.
Publications
- L. Bougas, G. Katsoprinakis, W. von Klitzing, J. Sapirstein, T.P Rakitzis, Cavity-enhanced parity non-conserving optical rotation in metastable Xe and Hg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210801, (2012)
- Fengyan Wang, Kopin Liu, T. Peter Rakitzis, Unfolding the nature of stereo-specific chemistry in the reaction of Cl atom with aligned CHD3(v1=1), Nature Chemistry 4, 636, (2012)
- Lykourgos Bougas and T. Peter Rakitzis, Parent-molecule rotational depolarization of photofragment angular momentum distributions, diatomic and polyatomic molecules, PhysChemChemPhys. 13, 8526, (2011)
- M.L. Lipciuc, T.P. Rakitzis, G.C. Groenenboom, W. Leo Meerts, M.H.M. Janssen, Quantum state-to-state photodissociation of OCS(v2=1|Jl=11), Variation of S(1D2) electronic polarization with correlated single rotational quantum states of CO(J),, PhysChemChemPhys. 13, 8549, (2011)
- M.A. Everest, V. Papadakis, K. Stamataki, S. Tzortzakis, B. Loppinet, T.P. Rakitzis, Evanescent-wave cavity ring-down ellipsometry, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2, 1324, (2011)
- T. Peter Rakitzis, M.H.M. Janssen, Photofragment angular momentum distributions from oriented and aligned polyatomic molecules, beyond the axial recoil limit,, Mol. Phys. 108, 937, (2010)
- T. Peter Rakitzis, Andrew J. Alexander, Photofragment angular momentum distributions in the molecular frame II, Single state dissociation, multiple state interference, and non-axial recoil in photodissociation of polyatomic molecules, J. Chem. Phys. 132, 224310, (2010)
- Lykourgos Bougas, Dimitris Sofikitis, Michael A. Everest, Andrew J. Alexander, T. Peter Rakitzis, (2+1) laser-induced fluorescence of spin-polarized hydrogen atoms, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 174308, (2010)
- T. Peter Rakitzis, Photofragment angular momentum distributions in the molecular frame III, Coherent effects in the photodissociation of polyatomic molecules with circularly polarized light, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 204301, (2010)
- Nathaniel C.M. Bartlett, Daniel J. Miller, Richard N. Zare, Andrew J. Alexander, Dimitris Sofikitis, T. Peter Rakitzis, Time-dependent depolarization of aligned HD molecules, PhysChemChemPhys. 11, 142, (2009)
Address
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Heraklion, Greece