Seconds, World's Fastest Camera Capture 5 Trillion Frame

Massachussetts Institute of Technology ever made a camera capable of taking 1 trillion frames per second. Now, researchers at Lund University, Sweden, have made a faster camera and able to record 5 trillion frames per second.

The world's fastest camera named Frequency Recognition Algorithm for Multiple Exposures (FRAME) It can record events that take place in just 1/5 trillion seconds.

So fast, FRAME can even complete the movement of light particles (photons) that move across the equivalent distance of a sheet of paper.

Why make this high-speed camera? The goal is to study a variety of science events that take place in a very short duration, in the femtosecond scale (sepertriliun detik).

There are some examples of such a chemical reaction process that on average only takes 200 femtoseconds, or the duration of atomic vibrations in iodine molecules of only 300 femtoseconds.

By recording and slowing the appearance of the occurrences of these natural phenomena, FRAME is expected to help scientists to learn more.

FRAME work process itself is somewhat different than conventional photo or video camera.

"High-speed cameras typically capture images one by one in a sequence," wrote Lund University in an explanation, as summarized by KompasTekno from PetaPixel on Wednesday (3/5/2017).

"This new technology uses innovative algorithms to capture multiple images in a single frame, then separate them into video sequences," continued Lund University.

Lund University is working with a German company to develop the FRAME technology to be used by other researchers. It is estimated that it will take another two years.