The world's fastest camera capable of shooting 6.1 mil. frames per second

The miracle happened! As it became known yesterday, a group of scientists from the University of California at Los Angeles (University of California in Los Angeles - UCLA) reported that they created the fastest camera in the world that can shoot photos at a speed of 6.1 mil. frames per second. Its shutter operates at a speed of 1/440000000000 seconds, reports BBC News.

It's no secret that at high shooting speeds, the image quality deteriorates dramatically, since a short exposure time does not allow the camera to clearly capture the traces of light rays that fall on an image sensor, the so-called “matrix”. Perhaps this is the main drawback of all existing high-speed cameras. As stated by Keisuke Goda, the head of the development team, to solve this problem, they highlight the subject of the shooting with a laser. For its part, the laser generates infrared rays with different wavelengths for each pixel on the matrix. To strengthen the signals recorded by the matrix, American scientists have developed a special module, the so-called integrated optical image amplifier, and perhaps this is the biggest secret of this camera. Thus, according to the Year, even the slowest moving objects can be recorded on the camera in ultra-high resolution. Here the main role, we emphasize, is played by the optical amplifier module.

As expected, this camera will be used in scientific research in the field of medicine, microscopy, cellular and molecular interactions. Such processes occur at high speed, and here it can be very useful. By the way, its official name is Serial Time-Encoded Amplified Microscopy Camera (STEAM).

A source: BBC News

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