A team of researchers at Washington University in St Louis has claimed to develop world’s fastest 2D receive-only camera, which capture images up to 100 billion frames per second using a technique call Compressed Ultrafast Photography (CUP).
“For the first time, humans can see light pulses on the fly,” said Lihong Wang, professor of Biomedical Engineering.
“Because this technique advances the imaging frame rate by orders of magnitude, we now enter a new regime to open up new visions,” said Wang.
The current ultrafast imaging techniques are limited by on-chip storage and electronic readout speed to operations of about 10 million frames per second.
![System of World's fastest Camera [Image: Lihong Wang, PhD]](http://www.spectralhues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/100-billion-frames-per-second.jpg)
System of World’s fastest Camera [Image: Lihong Wang, PhD]
Through compressed ultrafast photography (CUP) the team able to make series of images they took with single laser shots.
“These ultrafast cameras have the potential to greatly enhance our understanding of very fast biological interactions and chemical processes and allow us to build better models of complex, dynamical systems,” said Richard Conroy from National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, US.
The camera may be helpful in biomedicine, astronomy and forensics field where it can be used under high-powered microscopes and telescopes to capture dynamic natural and physical phenomena.
“Combine CUP imaging with the Hubble Telescope, and we will have both the sharpest spatial resolution of the Hubble and the highest temporal solution with CUP,” said Wang.
“Each new technique, especially one of a quantum leap forward, is always followed a number of new discoveries. It’s our hope that CUP will enable new discoveries in science ones that we can’t even anticipate yet,” said Wang.
The research already featured in the journal Nature.
(Additional input from IANS)
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