Posted on 03/26/2024 11:50:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Engineers at INRS Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre in Canada have developed the world’s fastest camera, which can shoot at an astonishing 156.3 trillion frames per second (fps).
The best slow-mo cameras in phones are usually working with a few hundred fps. Professional cinematic cameras might use a few thousand, to achieve a smoother effect. But if you want to see what’s going on at the nanoscale, you’ll need to slow things way down, to the billions or even trillions of frames per second.
The new camera can reportedly capture events that occur in the realm of femtoseconds – quadrillionths of a second. For reference, there’s about as many of those in one second as there are seconds in 32 million years.
The researchers built on technology they developed as far back as 2014, known as compressed ultrafast photography (CUP) which could capture a now paltry-seeming 100 billion fps. The next stage was called T-CUP, with the T standing for “Trillion-frame-per-second” – which was, true to its word, capable of up to 10 trillion fps. And then in 2020, the team bumped it up to 70 trillion fps with a version called compressed ultrafast spectral photography (CUSP).
Now, the researchers have more than doubled it again, to a mind-boggling 156.3 trillion frames per second. The new camera system is called “swept-coded aperture real-time femtophotography” (SCARF), which can capture events that happen too fast for even the previous versions of the tech to see. That includes things like shock waves moving through matter or living cells.
SCARF works by first firing off a “chirped” ultrashort pulse of laser light, which passes through the event or object being imaged.
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He'll know exactly when something happened ... but not a clue where.
You win the thread.
So fast that they call it The AR15 of Cameras
So, who is going to sit and watch this? Even only one second’s worth?
Scientists and video gamers.................
Looks like it can be used to check temperatures in combustion gases or the interaction of enzymes and substrate or cell division kinetics or real time calculation of national debt and/or number of lies by MSM.
I am somewhat confused. If it is laser light it should all be of one wavelength. Unless this is a unique laser that can make multiple wavelengths. This could be done with multiple lasers pumped by the same impulse. Different wavelengths travel at different speeds through a substance, but they are all damn fast. Thus from one pulsed laser array we could get different speeds and thus multiple frames from one laser pulse.
The real question is how fast can you pulse the laser or is it continuous. I wish the article went into more depth of the physics.
“...156.3 trillion frames per second...”
Almost as fast as those fully-automatic “machine gun AR15s” the Feds are wanting to confiscate, as reported by the DNC-Media on several occasions.
Damn
You sure?
There’s a Trudeau joke/meme in there somewhere.
Somehow this will end up for porn. Imagine the money shots....
95% of all research grants (double that for defense spending) go into creating “cool” acronyms.
Fact!
EG&G developed an amazing number of high speed cameras to record atomic ests in the 40’s and 50’s. The Rapatronic camera had a shutter time of 10 nanoseconds.
What film did they use?
ISO 100000?...................
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