SCIENTISTS INVENT WORLD’S FASTEST CAMERA THAT SHOOTS 156 TRILLION FPS

Sun 31 March 2024:

The researchers developed a new ultrafast camera system that can capture astonishingly accurate images at up to 156.3 trillion frames per second (fps).

In contrast, professional cinematic cameras have frames per second (fps) that reach the thousands.

This technology has been developed by Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications researchers at the Research Centre Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Canada.

SCARF, which stands for swept-coded aperture real-time femtophotography, can record ultrafast demagnetisation of a metal alloy and transient absorption in a semiconductor with its novel technology.

The SCARF system, the world’s fastest camera, in the lab INRS

SCARF differs from previous ultrafast camera systems that would take individual frames one at a time and then compile them into a movie to recreate what it had seen. Instead, the team at Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications at the Research Centre Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Quebec, Canada, used passive femtosecond imaging which enables the T-CUP system (Trillion-frame-per-second compressed ultrafast photography) which can capture trillions of frames per second.

The new technology will benefit advances in current physics, biology, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and other subjects, according to researchers.

In the journal Nature Communications, the details of the team’s work were published.

Professor Jinyang Liang, scientific head of the Laboratory of Applied Computational Imaging at INRS, laid the groundwork for Scarf.

The team From left to right: Professor Jinyang Liang, Yingming Lai, PhD student in energy and materials science, Heide Ibrahim, Director of ALLS, Miguel Marquez, postdoctoral fellow and co-author of the study, and Professor François Légaré in front of the SCARF system at INRS.

The professor is known worldwide as a pioneer of ultrafast imaging and achieved a significant advancement in 2018.

The primary method employed by ultrafast camera systems has been taking individual frames one at a time until now.

They would take quick, repetitive measurements to gather data, then compile everything into a movie that recreated the movement they had seen, according to Interesting Engineering.

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