Here’s The World’s Fastest Camera

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology developed a new camera that can take seventy trillion frames per second. That’s right, a whopping seventy trillion frames. The discovery is called compressed ultrafast spectral photography, or CUSP. Popular Mechanics has more details: 

Prior imaging developments based on silicon sensors have ushered in speeds up to millions of frames per second, Lihong Wang, a medical engineering and electrical engineering professor at Caltech, tells Popular Mechanics. But that still isn't nearly fast enough to observe and document some of the most fleeting curiosities in our physical world, from nuclear fusion, to ultrashort pulses of light on the order of picoseconds (10−12 second), to the fluorescent radioactive decay of molecules.

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