Scientists have developed a camera that can capture images shoot with a whopping 100 billion frames per second. The system will be mainly applied in the biomedical sciences, for example biological processes to study.
The fast-shooting camera is designed by scientists of the Washington University in St. Louis. They set the fastest camera in the world to have designed, and where the fastest instance before a few tens of millions of images per second could shoot, those of the Washington University, a whopping 100 billion frames per second. The researchers have the system compressed ultrafast photography or CUP, called.
The CUP system can record images at very high speed by collected particles of light, called photons, through a thin tube to a device to guide that consists of a million ‘micromirrors’. These mirrors each have only a surface area of 7 square microns. This is the final image formed, which is then returned to a beam splitter. This will send the beam of photons through to the camera where they are converted to electrons using an electric field at the right time and place on a ccd image sensor can end up.
According to the authors, is the camera system, especially applicable in the science and especially in medical biology. For example, it is possible to cellular processes transparent images, high speed capture. As filmed Dutch scientists already with the absorption of drugs by cells with a fast camera. According to the Washington University is their high-speed camera can also be used in astronomy.
