The worlds fastest camera shoots at 70 trillion frames per second

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Smartphones allow you to make videos at a rate of about 1,000 frames per second.
Professional cameras capture movement at speeds of up to 10,000 frames per second. This is the first time that a professional camera has been able to capture a speed of up to 10,000 frames per second. But it all pales in comparison to the 70 trillion frames per second that scientists at MIT have learned to do. Now you can even look at the motion of the light wave.

Fastest camera shutter speed camera records at 10 trillion frames per second.

A group of researchers from Caltech published an article in Nature Communications (available at), in which they discussed improved high-speed filming technology. This is not the first breakthrough by scientists from Caltech in this direction. He is a research specialist at the Lihong Wang Institute (Lihong Wang).

In 2014, he introduced the original CUP high-speed (compressed hyperspeed photography) technology at 100 billion frames/s. By 2018, the technology had been upgraded to T-CUP, and filming speed reached 10 trillion frames/s. New CUSP technology (compressed ultra-fast spectral photography) has increased filming speed seven times to 70 trillion frames/s.

The CUSP is based on a pulse laser emitting ultra-short light pulses with a duration of one femtosecond (10 15 s). The optical system divides these impulses into even shorter flashes. These fractional pulses illuminate the target, and then, through another optical system, they hit the image sensor, which forms the resulting picture.

Schematic image of a 70-trillion frame/s (Caltech) installation

«We assume the application of [developments] in a wide spectrum of extremely fast phenomena such as ultra-short light distribution, wave propagation, nuclear fusion, photon transport in clouds and biological tissues and, inter alia, fluorescent degradation of biomolecules»,   said Wang. CUSP technology can also be used to explore the ultra-fast world of fundamental physics and to create more compact and sensitive electronics.