The world's fastest camera can capture 5 trillion frames per second

The camera captured 1 trillion frames in a second by the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) out of date. Researchers in Sweden have created the world's fastest camera that can capture up to 5 trillion frames in a second.

This camera, called FRAME (Frequency Recognition Algorithm for Multiple Exposures), was developed at Lund University, which could "make the light stand still" and capture events that took place in 0.2 trillion seconds. Scientists say the camera could be used in chemistry, physics, biology and medicine, but no previous camera could capture - things that happen at femtosecond speeds.

To be able to imagine, Wikipedia explains that a femtosecond (femtosecond) is a unit of time, equivalent to 1 / 1,000,000,000,000,000 of a second.

This camera does not work like a normal camera.

Lund, an astronomer at Lund University, Elias Kristensson, said: "Today, the only way to visualize such fast events is to take pictures of this process. You must then try. Try repeating the same experiments to provide some still images that could later be edited into a movie.The problem with this approach is that it is very unlikely that a process will be identical. if you repeat the test ".

To demonstrate the camera, Lund University researchers filmed photon light particles moving a distance of the thickness of a sheet of paper. Only take a picosecond to process the above process. (1 picosecond is 1 part trillionth of a second), but the camera can capture and show moving photons by slowing things down.

According to Petapixel site, this camera does not work like a normal camera. Here is the "simple" explanation of Lund University:

"Currently, high-speed cameras take pictures one at a time , " Lund wrote. "New technology is based on an innovative algorithm, and captures some encoded images in a picture, then it will classify them into a video sequence".

"In short, this method exposes what you are filming (eg chemical reaction) to light in the form of a laser flash, in which each pulse of light is assigned to a single code. The strobe light is combined into a single image, then they are separated using the "encryption key".

Technology is currently being commercialized by a German company, and it is estimated to be ready for widespread use in about two years.