Scientific Discovery of the Week - Volume 3

[Agloco]

Trillion-frame-per-second video

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-...ond-video.html

MIT researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second. That’s fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a one-liter bottle, bouncing off the cap and reflecting back to the bottle’s bottom.

Media Lab postdoc Andreas Velten, one of the system’s developers, calls it the “ultimate” in slow motion: “There’s nothing in the universe that looks fast to this camera,” he says.

Pretty cool.....

This is a slit camera which deflects photons to varying degrees based on their time of arrival.

It's only capalbe of registering one demension though. It has to be repositioned multiple times in order to get a 2D representation of an event. That means the event being photographed must be repeatable.

Practical apps? Not sure of any outside of spectroscopic research. Perhaps in the future, this may be used for visualizing light scatter and such.

[Winehole23]

cool article

[mouse]

Cancer?