Homer L. Dodge Department
of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Oklahoma

My group pursues methods for cooling and trapping molecules in order to study long range forces, molecular alignment, exotic molecular states, near threshold scattering dynamics, energy transfer and quantum control of bimolecular collisions. The group also does some work on photoelectron photoion coincidence imaging spectroscopy to study gas phase molecular dynamics. Recently, we have also become interested in Bose-Einstein condensation. All of these experiments are technically challenging and require narrow band width lasers, pulsed lasers, ultrahigh vacuum technology, pulsed beam techniques, high frequency electronics, numerical computation, computer modeling and novel time and position sensitive detectors.

Our main focus is atomic, molecular and optical physics. We are currently pursuing several avenues of research in this field. Our primary efforts are cold Rydberg gases, cold molecules and cold collisions. We also work in the area of time-resolved photoelectron photoion coincidence imaging spectroscopy. Primarily we are an experimental group, but we contribute to theoretical work relevant to our experiments.

We maintain strong collaborations with the atomic, molecular and optical physics group within the department of phyics at the University of Oklahoma. We are always looking for new people to join our group as students, visitors and post docs. Contact information can be found on this website.

• Graduate Studies Program
• Undergraduate Studies Program
• Departmental Research
• Research Experiences for Undergraduates
• Engineering Physics Program
• Homer L. Dodge Endowed Chair Faculty Search