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World's fastest camera can capture 10 trillion frames per second:  A Report

A team of researchers has developed a camera called the T-CUP, which reportedly records 10 trillion frames per second. The team said that this new camera can literally freeze time to see the phenomenon and even light in extreme slow motion.

According to the team, the camera can power a new generation of microscopes for bio-medicine, materials science and other applications. According to a study conducted for the first time with the ultra-fast camera, a new approach was taken by recording the time focus of a single femtosecond (10-15) laser pulse in real time.

The science and technology news platform said that leveraging the potential of microscopic dynamic analysis techniques in biology and physics requires a method of capturing images in real time with a very short temporal resolution, even in a single exposure. It is said that ultrashort laser pulse measurements must be repeated many times using current imaging techniques, "which is suitable for some types of inert samples but impossible for other more sensitive samples."

The team started with Compressed Ultrafast Photography (CUP), in which a camera clicks 100 billion frames per second. However, it did not meet the specifications for the integration of femtosecond lasers. To improve the concept, the researchers developed the T-CUP system based on a femtosecond streak camera.