Plasma channel formation in NIR laser-irradiated carrier gas from an aerosol nanoparticle injector

The development of laser light sources with high intensity ultrashort pulses has opened up new possibilities in science, from the study of structure and dynamics in structural and molecular biology to detailed studies of ionization/excitation processes in atoms/molecules to investigations of matter under extreme conditions. In all of these research areas, methods of well-controlled sample delivery are of key importance.