The World’s Fastest Camera Shoots Five Trillion Photos Every Second

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Scientists have developed a super-fast camera that can film at a rate of five trillion images per second, fast enough to visualise the movement of light. However, no camera on the market comes anywhere close to the latest device built at Lunch University which manages to capture over five trillion (5,000,000,000,000) frames in one second. We’re talking about events much faster than anything your GoPro can capture, particularly natural processes and reactions in chemistry, physics and biology.

The world’s fastest camera is different than our digital cameras, of course. It doesn’t capture the scene for a full second, considering that the events it records are over in less than a picosecond. Instead, the camera flashes a laser at the subject, with each pulse being a unique “code”. Every frame it captures contains four separate images, which are later decoded and separated with an encryption key. Instead of taking images one by one in a sequence, like other high-speed cameras, this took four separate images per frame. The researchers called the technology Frequency Recognition Algorithm for Multiple Exposures (FRAME). It will allow them to increase capture speeds, but also to capture longer sequences with more detail.

FRAME is based on an innovative algorithm, and instead captures several coded images in one picture. It then sorts them into a video sequence afterwards. The film camera is initially intended to be used by researchers who literally want to gain better insight into many of the extremely rapid processes that occur in nature. 

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