{"id":209144,"date":"2017-05-03T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=209144"},"modified":"2017-05-03T16:05:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T14:05:14","slug":"the-worlds-fastest-camera-light-practically-stands-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/209144-the-worlds-fastest-camera-light-practically-stands-still.html","title":{"rendered":"The world’s fastest camera – light practically stands still"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lund University has demonstrated<\/strong><\/a> the world’s fastest camera, which can film at a rate equivalent to five trillion images per second.<\/p>\n

“This is faster than has previously been possible,” said the university.<\/p>\n

The camera will be able to capture incredibly-rapid processes in chemistry, physics, biology, and biomedicine that so far have not been caught on film, it stated.<\/p>\n

To show off the capabilities of the camera, researchers used it to film light travelling over a distance equal to the thickness of a sheet of paper.<\/p>\n

“In reality, it only takes a picosecond, but on film the process has been slowed down by a trillion times.”<\/p>\n

“Currently, high-speed cameras capture images one by one in a sequence. The new technology is based on an innovative algorithm, and instead captures several coded images in one picture. It then sorts them into a video sequence afterwards.”<\/p>\n