Thursday, 30. April 2009
Topic: PHOTO - on April 30, 2009 at 11:35:00 AM CEST
World's fastest camera
A team of physicists has built the world's fastest camera using off-the-shelf electronics from the fibre-optics industry.
The camera technique, known as serial time-encoded amplified microscopy (STEAM), can take an image every 163 nanoseconds — a rate roughly six times as fast as the best digital video cameras on the market. Although its current resolution is only about 2,500 pixels, that can probably be improved, says Keisuke Goda, a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, and one of the authors on the paper, which appears today in Nature.
