The cutting-edge camera can capture motion like shockwaves and possibly even the signals that travel through neurons—but don't expect to get your hands on one anytime soon.
New camera technology that takes up to 1 trillion frames per second is so advanced it can take images of transparent phenomena, U.S. researchers say. The camera builds on previous research, in which the team used the technology to capture light traveling in slow motion.
The cutting-edge camera can capture motion such as shockwaves and possibly even the signals that travel through neurons—but don't expect to get your hands on one anytime soon. The tech is early in development and intended to be used in fields such as physics, biology and chemistry.Development is being led by Lihong Wang, professor of medical engineering and electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology .
The newly unveiled system combines a previously-developed high-speed photography camera with an older technology known as"phase-contrast microscopy," which produces clearer images of transparent objects by analyzing how light changes speed as it comes into contact with materials. "What we've done is to adapt standard phase-contrast microscopy so that it provides very fast imaging, which allows us to image ultrafast phenomena in transparent materials," a comment attributed to Professor Wang said in aThe system should be able to produce better images of hard-to-capture objects that contain a high degree of transparency, such as water-based cells, experts said.
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