A camera recently achieved an astonishing record, as it was able to capture photos at the astonishing speed of 156 trillion Of frames per second. This amazing instrument, born from the work of a team of researchers, led by Professor Jinyang Liang ofNational Institute of Scientific Research in Quebec, shows the potential of innovation photography in various sectors.
While the new camera may be a very important tool in the field of scientific imaging, its use could extend to medicine and to theinformatics. The technology it is equipped with is capable of capturing 132 frames starting from a single pulse of a powerful laser ultra-fast. Such a system allows you to capture phenomena that occur in femtoseconds, or one quadrillionth of a second. This finally makes it possible to study ultrafast events such asabsorption of photons from semiconductors or the demagnetization of films League. This is directly reflected in the field of medicine, as it also allows the development of magnetic memories for the computer and medical treatments with ultrasound. The heart of this instrument is, of course, a special type of light source known as chirped laser.
How the camera laser works and how it captures time
This type of technology, called chirped laser won a Nobel Prize for physics in 2018. Its operation, in short, consists inextend wavelengths of light allowing the colors to come in different moments. This allows the camera’s laser to capture details of an event that occur at different times in a single pulse. Other technologies, including specialized software, allows you to concentrate the captured frames into a movie 850 femtoseconds.
This turning point does not only represent a milestone in terms of photography at high speed, but also revolutionizes the human vision, allowing you to identify previously invisible events. Giving an example, to understand how innovative this system is, it must be considered that the camera better than two years ago he could film at most a 10 trillion of frames per second. This progress will certainly show new avenues for scientific research and for diagnosis practically possibility.
