Debut for world’s fastest camera
The fastest imaging system ever devised has been demonstrated by researchers reporting in the journal Nature.
Their camera’s “shutter speed” is just a half a billionth of a second, and it can capture over six million images in a second continuously.
Its “flashbulb” is a fast laser pulse dispersed in space and then stretched in time and detected electronically.
The approach will be instrumental in imaging fast-moving or random events, such as communication between neurons.
What is more, the camera works with just one detector, rather than the millions in a typical digital camera.