The fastest camera in the world.

This camera is faster than any other, much faster: With an entirely new digital camera technology researchers achieved exposure times of trillionth seconds. The rapid camera will help scientists and physicians.

 

London - The new camera worked a thousand times faster than traditional cameras, said Keisuke Goda of the University of California at Los Angeles and his colleagues. Moreover, they do exposure times of 440 trillionth seconds and can shoot picture series, where the frames at a distance of only 163 billionths of a second shot will explain in their development the researchers involved.

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Test picture: With the new high-speed camera photographed the researchers, such as a pistol bullet in an apple penetrates

Potential applications are the developers of the fast photo apparatus, for example in medicine. When laser surgery or when taking pictures of shock waves could be the unique device useful services, write the researchers in the journal "Nature" (vol. 458, S.1145, doi: 10.1038/nature07980).

Past Digital worked with the so-called CCD technology. This information will be used to redirect electrical charges from one CCD cell to the next. The new camera, the scientists put the other hand, no CCD detectors, but a technique in which the time-dependent two-dimensional image is encrypted and will be visually enhanced. The signal can then be only for one pixel light detectors are covered. For this signal, the image is finally reconstructed digitally.

Because the camera reinforces the visual images, it bypasses the compromise between a high sensitivity and high speed picture, as he at the usual CCD detectors have entered. The new camera requires neither refrigeration nor a very bright light. The authors have the function of the camera already demonstrated real-time recordings, such as so-called laser ablation. Here, the surface of a material, such as in medical fabrics, worn by laser pulses.