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The Fastest Camera Ever Made Captures 100 Billion Frames Per Second

Posted by samzenpus on from the don't-forget-the-flash dept.

Jason Koebler writes A new imaging technique is able to capture images at 100 billion frames per second—fast enough to watch light interact with objects, which could eventually lead to new cloaking technologies. The camera was developed by a team at Washington University in St. Louis—for the team's first tests, it was able to visualize laser pulse reflections, photons racing through air and through resin, and "faster-than-light propagation of non-information." It can also be used in conjunction with telescopes and to image optical and quantum communications, according to lead researcher Liang Gao.

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  1. Fastest, ehh? by Bengie · · Score: 3, Informative

    World's Fastest Camera Captures 4.4 Trillion Frames Per Second August 14, 2014
    http://tech.slashdot.org/story...

    1. Re:Fastest, ehh? by Bengie · · Score: 3, Informative

      MIT camera renders light at a trillion frames per second Uploaded on Dec 21, 2011
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      I highly recommend watching if you haven't already.

    2. Re:Fastest, ehh? by Ost99 · · Score: 5, Informative

      The MIT camera doesn't capture that many frames pr second. The video they create show a trillion frames per second, but it's created from a gazillion movies of identical light pulses.

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  2. Re:faster-than-light propagation of non-informatio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    It's wonderful that your delusions include FTL being possible, but maybe you can refrain from commenting on physics articles until you actually have something passable as a physics education?

    You have a moon full of photoreceptors tuned to the color of your laser. Over a short period some number of these are struck by photons from your laser. Nothing moved faster than the speed of light in order to make this happen, no matter how fast the "dot" appeared to move, and nothing can turn those individual photon strikes into a comprehensible signal faster than the speed of light.

    See here. See also a fucking relativity textbook, your ignorance is really fucking annoying.