Prof. Andrei Afanasev Profile

Prof. Andrei Afanasev

Professor at George Washington Univ

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Publications (8)

SPIE Journal Paper | 17 January 2023 Open Access

Nondiffractive three-dimensional polarization features of optical vortex beams

Andrei Afanasev, Jack Kingsley-Smith, Francisco Rodríguez-Fortuño, Anatoly Zayats

APN, Vol. 2, Issue 02, 026001, (January 2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.APN.2.2.026001

KEYWORDS: Polarization, Optical vortices, Spiral phase plates, Electric fields, Plane waves, Diffraction, Beam propagation method, Beam divergence, Matrices, Radio propagation

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Proceedings Article | 3 October 2022 Presentation + Paper

Superkicks and momentum density tests via micromanipulation

Andrei Afanasev, Carl Carlson, Asmita Mukherjee

Proceedings Volume 12198, 1219806 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2633726

KEYWORDS: Photons, Electromagnetism, Calcium, Polarization, Physics, Ions, Wavefronts, Structured light, Particles, Chemical species

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Proceedings Article | 18 April 2018 Paper

Angular-momentum selection rules for photo-excitation of ions with twisted light

Maria Solyanik, Andrei Afanasev

Proceedings Volume 10549, 1054906 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2289250

KEYWORDS: Photons, Ions, Polarization, Quantum dots, Bessel beams, Semiconductors, Chemical species, Spiral phase plates, Physics, Singular optics

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Proceedings Article | 14 March 2018 Presentation

Quantum angular-momentum selection rules for absorption of twisted light by bound electrons (Conference Presentation)

Andrei Afanasev

Proceedings Volume 10549, 1054907 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292647

KEYWORDS: Optical vortices, Dichroic materials, Photons, Absorption, Electrons, Light-matter interactions, Chemical species, Ions, Birefringence

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Proceedings Article | 28 April 2017 Presentation

Cross section and polarization singularities in the twisted-photon absorption by atoms (Conference Presentation)

Andrei Afanasev

Proceedings Volume 10120, 101200T (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2255751

KEYWORDS: Polarization, Chemical species, Optical vortices, Singular optics, Absorption, Dichroic materials, Spiral phase plates, Hydrogen, Photon polarization, Current controlled current source

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Proceedings Article | 10 November 2016 Presentation

High-multipole excitations of atoms by twisted photons near phase singularity (Conference Presentation)

Andrei Afanasev, Carl Carlson, Asmita Mukherjee

Proceedings Volume 9922, 99220O (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238828

KEYWORDS: Photons, Chemical species, Spiral phase plates, Optical vortices, Optical tweezers, Optical micromanipulation, Current controlled current source

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